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<baltimore-city-law heading="§ 23-6 Watershed management plan.">
  <section prefix="§" num="23-6" heading="Watershed management plan.">
    <para num="(a)" heading="In general.">
      <para num="(1)">The Department may develop an overall watershed management plan for the purpose of implementing different policies for waivers and redevelopment.</para>
      <para num="(2)">If the Department establishes a watershed management plan for a specific watershed, the Department may develop quantitative control waivers and redevelopment provisions that differ from § 23-1(a)(2)(ii) through (v) and § 23-7.</para>
      <para num="(3)">
        <para num="(i)">If the Department establishes a watershed management plan for a specific watershed, then the Department may develop separate policies, reviewed and approved by the State Water Management Administration, for providing water quality control.</para>
        <para num="(ii)">These separate policies may include:<para num="A.">retrofitting;</para>
          <para num="B.">stream restoration;</para>
          <para num="C.">pollution trading;</para>
          <para num="D.">design criteria based on watershed management plans developed under &lt;cite data-path="|7|§23-6|(b)"&gt;§ 23-6(b) of this Division II&lt;/cite&gt;;</para>
          <para num="E.">payment of offset fees that are dedicated exclusively to provide for stormwater management within the same watershed as the proposed development; or</para>
          <para num="F.">other policies developed by the Department.</para>
        </para>
      </para>
    </para>
    <para num="(b)" heading="Requisites.">For this purpose, the watershed management plan must:<para num="(1)">include detailed hydrologic and hydraulic analyses to determine hydrograph timing;</para>
      <para num="(2)">include an evaluation of both quantity and quality management and of opportunities for environmental site design implementation;</para>
      <para num="(3)">include a cumulative impact assessment of current and proposed watershed development;</para>
      <para num="(4)">identify existing flooding conditions and receiving stream channel conditions;</para>
      <para num="(5)">be prepared at a reasonable scale;</para>
      <para num="(6)">specify where on-site or off-site quantitative and qualitative controls are to be implemented;</para>
      <para num="(7)">be consistent with the General Performance Standards for Stormwater Management in Maryland, found in Section 1.2 of the State’s Design Manual; and</para>
      <para num="(8)">be approved by the State Water Management Administration.</para>
    </para>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 02-367</annotation>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 10-277</annotation>
  </section>
</baltimore-city-law>
