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RESOLUTION A RESOLUTION TO INITIATE AN ORDINANCE TO AMEND CHAPTER 2 OF THE DESIGN STANDARDS DEALING WITH DRAINAGE WHEREAS, the Stormwater Management Ordinance was originally adopted in 2002 and the Drainage Chapter of the County’s Design Standards Manual (DSM) was adopted in 2005 to provide standards and guidelines to implement the Stormwater Management Ordinance; and WHEREAS, after Staff and the design community worked with the Design Standards Manual for the past few years, it was recognized that evaluation of the Manual was called for to make it more user friendly; and WHEREAS, over the last year, Staff worked with a DSM Committee of private sector engineering design professionals (members of the Engineers and Surveyors Institute) on the evaluation and refinement of the design standards within Chapter 2 to simplify, clarify and improve the usability of the document, while maintaining good design practices; and WHEREAS, the content of the final document was developed through consensus and received unanimous recommendation from the DSM Committee; now, therefore, be it RESOLVED by the Fauquier County Board of Supervisors this 14th day of May 2009, That an amendment to Chapter 2 of the Design Standards Manual dealing with drainage be, and is hereby, initiated and should be scheduled for public hearing. A Copy Teste
Paul S. McCulla |