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Mejia, Anthony
Sent: Thursday, October 02, 2014 9:26 PM
To: Kremke, Kate
Subject: Fwd: Stormwater diversion program
Agenda Correspondence for 10/07/14, Public Comment.
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From: "Marx, Jan" <imarx @slocity.or >
Date: October 2, 2014 at 8:57:49 PM PDT
To: Joel Diringer <ioel.diringer @gmail.com>
Cc: "Mejia, Anthony" <ameiia @slocity.org>
Subject: RE: Stormwater diversion program
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Thank you, Joel. I am including our city clerk in this response, so your message is posted on the city
website and becomes part of the public record.
Best
Jan
Jan Marx
Mayor
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From: Joel Diringer fjoel.diringer(sIgmail.com]
Sent: Thursday, October 02, 2014 10:39 AM
To: Marx, Jan
Subject: Stormwater diversion program
Dear Jan:
I am writing you about a snag in SLO City in an innovative storm water diversion program being
administered locally by the Coastal San Luis Resource Conservation District (RCD).
The StormRewards Program provides rebates to homeowners for reducing runoff from storm water
through projects such as installing a rain garden, dry well, directing roof runoff to landscaped areas or
planting trees. As a long -time advocate for urban gardening and reducing water usage, as well as
diverting urban pollutants away from our streams and oceans, I applied for to the program to install rain
barrels to capture roof rainwater to use for my backyard fruit trees.
As part of initial program efforts, the RCD proactively met with storm water staff of each of the three
cities enrolled in the program, including SLO, to educate city staff on the program benefits and
coordinate all aspects of the program, including program outreach, possible permits, participant costs,
and long term monitoring responsibilities. Due to some apparent miscommunication, it now appears
that the City of SLO alone of all the jurisdictions requires a permit to do such minimal things as installing
rain barrels or a rain garden. This adds considerable cost and effort to homeowners who are trying to do
the right thing.
I understand the RCD staff has been in discussion with City staff about ameliorating the onerous
requirements and I want to urge you encourage the waiving of permits for StormRewards applicants
who meet basic requirements.
Supporters of the StormRewards program, including myself, will be in attendance at the October 7 City
Council meeting to show their support for the program. If you have any questions about the
StormRewards program, you can contact Nicole Smith at the RCD, nsmith @coastaircd.org, (805)772-
4391 office; (805) 471 -9480 cell
Thank you for your consideration.
Joel
Joel Diringer
Diringer and Associates
2475 Johnson Avenue
San Luis Obispo, CA 93401
805.546.0950 - landline
805.544.7722 — mobile
www.diringerassociates.com
ioel @diringerassociates.com