AGENDA CAPTION:
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2016-20039 (Tuttle Lumber Qualified Watershed Protection Plan) Hold a public hearing and consider a request by ETR Development Consulting, LLC, on behalf of Tuttle Lumber Co., Ltd., for approval of a Qualified Watershed Protection Plan Phase 2 for 3.27 acres, more or less, out of the Juan Martin De Veramendi Survey located at 228 South Guadalupe Street (G. Schwarz)
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Meeting date: January 10, 2017
Department: Planning & Development Services
Funds Required: N/A
Account Number: N/A
Funds Available: N/A
Account Name: N/A
CITY COUNCIL GOAL: N/A
COMPREHENSIVE PLAN ELEMENT(s): N/A
BACKGROUND:
The applicant is requesting approval of a Qualified Watershed Protection Plan Phase 2 (QWPP2) based upon reclamation of land within the Draft FEMA 100-year floodplain of Purgatory Creek. Proposed site fill is outside the effective FEMA 100-year floodplain.
The site is currently not being used.
The proposed building is the encroachment into the Draft FEMA 100-year floodplain. The footprint of the proposed building is in a similar location of the existing buildings. The development also includes increasing flood conveyance by increasing the width of a portion of the Purgatory Creek channel by 7.5- feet and lowering the top-of-bank by 1-foot for a width 22-feet. Channel improvements will not impact bottom of channel where possible Waters of the US may exist.
Based upon the engineering review of this Qualified Watershed Protection Plan, Phase 2, it meets the applicable technical requirements of Chapter 5 of the Land Development Code, except for the temporary erosion control measure inadequacies noted in the staff report.
Staff provides this request to the Commission for your consideration and recommends approval with the condition that a revised set of plans are provided addressing the temporary erosion control plan inadequacies noted above.