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HomeMy WebLinkAbout12-13-2016 Item 11 Ordinance Adoption - 1631 Amendment to Outdoor Irrigation of Public Facility Turf with potable water Meeting Date: 12/13/2016 FROM: Daryl Grigsby, Director of Public Works Carrie Mattingly, Director of Utilities Shelly Stanwyck, Director of Parks and Recreation Prepared By: Matt Horn, Deputy Director of Public Works and City Engineer SUBJECT: ORDINANCE NO. 1631 (SECOND READING) – AMENDMENT TO SECTION 13.07.030 OF THE SAN LUIS OBISPO MUNICIPAL CODE REGARDING RESTRICTIONS ON OUTDOOR IRRIGATION OF PUBLIC FACILITY TURF WITH POTABLE WATER RECOMMENDATION Adopt an Ordinance to Amend Chapter 13.07.030 of the Municipal Code to allow for the daily watering of designated City turf facilities during their annual renovations and three times per week thereafter to sustain and provide safe public access to the same facilities. DISCUSSION On November 15, 2016, the City Council voted unanimously (4-0) to introduce Ordinance No. 1631 to amend Chapter 13.07.030 of the San Luis Obispo Municipal Code to modify restrictions on outdoor irrigation of public facility turf with potable water. Ordinance No. 1631 (2016 Series) is now ready for adoption and will become effective thirty days after the date of its final passage (Attachment A). ALTERNATIVES 1. The Council may decide not to adopt this ordinance; and 2. The Council could continue final adoption of the proposed amendment and provide direction to staff for research and revisions, which would require re-introduction of the ordinance. Attachments: a - Ordinance 11 Packet Pg. 203 O _____ ORDINANCE NO. 1631 (2016 SERIES) AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SAN LUIS OBISPO, CALIFORNIA, AMENDING SECTION 13.07.030 OF THE SAN LUIS OBISPO MUNICIPAL CODE REGARDING RESTRICTIONS ON OUTDOOR IRRIGATION OF PUBLIC FACILITY TURF WITH POTABLE WATER WHEREAS, drought conditions have continued through 2016 making it critically necessary to continue to manage water consumption during the ongoing drought to ensure that adequate water supplies are available in the long term in order to protect the public health, safety and welfare; and WHEREAS, in order to preserve eight public facilities utilized for public recreation the City is proposing to allow an exemption for each of them such that they may be annually renovated and watered three times a week to sustain these facilities. The facilities are limited to: Emerson Field, Meadow Park Field, Mission Plaza Turf, Santa Rosa Center Field, Santa Rosa Softball Field, Sinsheimer Stadium, Stockton Field, and Throop Field. NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED by the Council of the City of San Luis Obispo as follows: SECTION 1. Environmental Determination. The City Council hereby finds that the Ordinance is categorically exempt from environmental review pursuant to CEQA Guidelines Section 15301(h) (Existing Facilities – maintenance of existing landscape). SECTION 2. Action. Section 13.07.030 (Council water conservation powers) of Chapter 13.07 the City of San Luis Obispo’s Municipal Code is hereby amended to add the following language: D. The following public facilities may be allowed to be renovated on an annual as needed basis: Emerson Field, Meadow Park Field, Mission Plaza Turf, Santa Rosa Center Field, Santa Rosa Softball Field, Sinsheimer Stadium, Stockton Field, and Throop Field. Annual renovation shall include an initial germination period during which daily watering at these eight facilities is allowed for a period of up to six weeks. Following renovation, these eight facilities will be allowed to be watered up to three days a week in order to sustain them. SECTION 3. Severability. If any subdivision, paragraph, sentence, clause, or phrase of this ordinance is, for any reason, held to be invalid or unenforceable by a court of competent jurisdiction, such invalidity or unenforceability shall not affect the validity or enforcement of t he remaining portions of this ordinance, or any other provisions of the city’s rules and regulations. It is the city’s express intent that each remaining portion would have been adopted irrespective of the fact that any one or more subdivisions, paragraphs, sentences, clauses, or phrases be declared invalid or unenforceable. 11.a Packet Pg. 204 Attachment: a - Ordinance [Revision 1] (1531 : ORDINANCE ADOPTION - OUTDOOR IRRIGATION OF PUBLIC FACILITY TURF WITH POTABLE Ordinance No. 1631 (2016 Series) Page 2 O _____ SECTION 4. A summary of this ordinance, together with the names of Council members voting for and against, shall be published at least five (5) days prior to its final passage, in The Tribune, a newspaper published and circulated in this City. This ordinance shall go into effect at the expiration of thirty (30) days after its final passage. INTRODUCED on the 15th day of November 2016, AND FINALLY ADOPTED by the Council of the City of San Luis Obispo on the ____ day of _______, 2016, on the following vote: AYES: NOES: ABSENT: Mayor Heidi Harmon ATTEST: Carrie Gallagher City Clerk APPROVED AS TO FORM: J. Christine Dietrick City Attorney IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the official seal of the City of San Luis Obispo, California, this ______ day of ______________, _________. ______________________________ Carrie Gallagher City Clerk 11.a Packet Pg. 205 Attachment: a - Ordinance [Revision 1] (1531 : ORDINANCE ADOPTION - OUTDOOR IRRIGATION OF PUBLIC FACILITY TURF WITH POTABLE Page intentionally left blank.