CC - 2015-38 - Adopting a Policy of Implementing Green Streets Best Managment Practices for Stormwater ManagementRESOLUTION NO. 2015 -38
A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF
THE CITY OF ROSEMEAD, CALIFORNIA
ADOPTING A POLICY OF IMPLEMENTING
GREEN STREETS BEST MANAGEMENT PRACTICES
FOR STORMWATER MANAGEMENT
WHEREAS, the Municipal Separate Storm Sewer System (MS4) Permit (Order No.
R- 2012 -0175) was adopted by the Los Angeles Regional Water Quality Control Board on
November 8, 2012 becoming effective on December 28, 2012, and
WHEREAS, the implementation of the MS4 Permit requires cities to demonstrate
policies that specify the use of Green Street strategies on the public right of way have been
developed, and
WHEREAS, Green Streets are enhancements to street and road projects to improve
the quality of stormwater and urban runoff through the implementation of infrastructure that
retains and infiltrates this run off through infiltration, bio- treatment, xeriscaping parkways,
and street trees, and
WHEREAS, the City of Rosemead is committed to implementing Best Management
Practices for stormwater management along transportation corridors and the City right of
way.
NOW, THEREFORE, the City Council of the CITY OF ROSEMEAD does hereby
resolve as follows:
1. The Public Works Department shall implement Green Streets Best Management
Practices for publically owned street and road projects that add 10,000 square feet
or more of new, impermeable surface area.
2. The Public Works Department shall, whenever financially and spatially feasible,
incorporate Green Streets components into infrastructure projects.
3. Routine maintenance projects, including slurry seal, road resurfacings, and road
reconstruction that maintains the original line and grade, are exemptfrom the Green
Streets Best Management Practices implementation.
4. The Public Works Department will implement the Green Streets Best Management
Practices according to the USEPA's Managing Wet Weather with Green
Infrastructure Municipal Handbook: Green Streets
PASSED, APPROVED and ADOPTED this 9 DAY OF JUNE 2015.
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Margaret r( IFa k, Mayor
ATTEST:
Gloria Molleda, City Clerk
Approved as to form:
Rachel Richman, City Attorney
STATE OF CALIFORNIA )
COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES ) SS.
CITY OF ROSEMEAD )
I, Gloria Molleda, City Clerk of the City of Rosemead, do hereby certify that the foregoing
Resolution No. 2015 -38 being:
A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY
COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
ROSEMEAD, CALIFORNIA
ADOPTING A POLICY OF
IMPLEMENTING GREEN STREETS
BEST MANAGEMENT PRACTICES
FOR STORMWATER MANAGEMENT
was duly and regularly approved and adopted by the Rosemead City Council on the gth of June,
2015, by the following vote to wit:
Yes:
Alarcon, Armenta, Clark, Low, Ly
No:
None
Abstain:
None
Absent:
None
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Gloria Molleda
City Clerk