Planning Board - 020520 Agenda Packet

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109 Michael Harvey: It does but if someone doesn’t have the ability we take it to our scanner and scan it.110 111 Craig Benedict: You’ve heard Michael referenceerosion control plans and stormwater plans and you may think they 112 are almost the same, the erosion control plan is during the construction phase where you are trying to keep sediment 113 from leaving the site. In most cases now, these erosion control devicesare turned into stormwater devices to treat 114 the water quality after construction. They’re very similar and in some cases we have control over how that 115 conversion occurs. 116 117 David Blankfard: Where is the date of the preconstruction conference, is that written down?118 119 Michael Harvey: It’s now written down, it occurs once the land disturbance permit is issued, we coordinate meeting 120 with the contractor on site. 121 122 David Blankfard: So there’s a record of it.123 124 Michael Harvey: Yes, there has to be. You don’t sign the permit until the day of the precon meeting. That’s when 125 the five years starts.126 127 Michael Harvey: There is one modification to the recommendation, strike the “approve with modifications”.128 129 MOTION by David Blankfard to approve the statement of consistency, and the text amendment as amended by 130 staff. Seconded byHathaway Pendergrass.131 VOTE:Unanimous132 133 Michael Harvey: Very quickly to talk about a couple of other things, Lydia, you asked about the fee schedule. There 134 are a lot of things we have to do with the existing erosion control ordinance. These are things that have been 135 identified and some are to address changes in state law. Staff is now completing the text amendments. We are 136 moving forward with fixing the UDO as it relates to changes we want to make to erosion control and stormwater 137 standards. We are still waiting on the state to determine what they want to do with regulations on nutrients. Some 138 will involve the Neuse. 139 140 Craig Benedict: We just repealed our nutrient standards in this and Jordan Lake because the state said we had to or 141 they could take away our whole program. We had to sacrifice the nutrient rules.142 143 Michael Harvey: We don’t know what direction they are going to go yet. Our hope is they have uniformity between 144 the Neuse and Cape Fear. It is easier.145 146 Craig Benedict: One initiative they’re talking about is alternative approach to how to achieve these things that maybe 147 there are state guidelines instead of state rules and they say they’ll make a determination if the method of 148 implementation meets certain goals and then they would give some latitude back. This is the only thing that we’ve 149 seen recently, in nine years, that has let it shift back a little bit to some more latitude by the local governments. 150 We’ve never been recognized for what we’ve been doing for 20 years. Some of the other fee things, some of our 151 other projects have been smaller scale and our fee schedule was not tailored for the larger ones like Collins Ridge 152 and Carraway Village so the numbers are coming up quite high. We need to relate our staff time and the project 153 fees. 154 155 Michael Harvey: We will report to m anagement on the fee schedule and the elected officials. The next step is to go 156 back in and clean up some inconsistencies with our existing erosion control standards and stormwater rules. We are 157 going to have to tackle the bonding requirement for all stormwater control measures and waiting to see what the state 158 is going to do on nutrients. We’ll keep you in the loop but you can anticipate it in 2020, a lot of erosion control and159 stormwater stuff. We’re still waiting on to see what they do on stream buffers.160 161 162 8