HomeMy WebLinkAbout06/06/1988, 2B - AN URGENCY ORDINANCE REPEALING SECTION 13.07.030 AND ADDING SECTIONS 13.07.30 - 13.07.50 TO CHAPTER 13.07 (WATER CONSERVATION) OF THE SAN LUIS OBISPO MUNICIPAL CODE II p I' A
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6. 10S2R
COUNCIL AGENDA REPORT ITEM NUMBER
FROM:
Dave Romero Bill Hetland .. _(j Prepared by: Linda Herman -'
Public Works Dir. Utilities Mgr. Water Conservation Coordinator
SUBJECT:
An Urgency Ordinance repealing Section 13.07.030 and adding sections
13.07.30 - 13.07.50 to Chapter 13.07 (Water Conservation) of the San Luis
Obispo Municipal Code
CAO RECOMMENDATION:
By motion, adopt Urgency Ordinance and pass the corresponding resolution
declaring a critical water period for San Luis Obispo.
BACKGROUND:
Due to two years of critically dry weather and insufficient runoff, the water
level of the Salinas Reservior, the City's primary source of water, is below
normal. In addition to the reduction of the existing water supply, the City's
water demand currently exceeds the safe annual yield of its reservoirs by six
percent. This puts the City of San Luis Obispo in a difficult water situation
and prompts the immediate attention of City Council and staff to look at steps
to be taken to mitigate this condition.
The City's Annual Water Operational Plan, which can be considered a drought
contingency plan, plots the City's reservoir storage based on the worst case
scenario of a six year drought and identifies certain action levels to be
implemented to help reduce the burden on the existing water supply. According
to the Plan, the City is currently in the moderate action level and will be in
the severe sometime this summer. This requires a fifteen to twenty-five
percent reduction in water use. If the next rainfall year is below average and
all else remains the same, the City of San Luis Obispo will be in the critical
level by summer 1989, and will be faced with having to reduce water demand by
fifty percent.
Staff is looking to water conservation as one means to help alleviate this
discrepancy between water supply and demand, and to stop the City from reaching
the critical action level. Although the City has an on-going water
conservation program, its main emphasis focuses on voluntary reductions in
water use from its residents. Studies have shown that voluntary water
conservation measures alone are not enough to achieve this large of a reduction
in demand. For these reasons, staff is proposing an urgency ordinance that
would give staff direction to implement mandatory water conservation measures.
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ordinance
The proposed Urgency Ordinance adds three sections to chapter 13.07 (Water
Conservation) of the Municipal Code and gives City Council power to declare by
resolution an emergency or critical water situation for the City of San Luis
Obispo. Upon passage of the resolution declaring a critical water period, the
ordinance allows Council to authorize and direct staff to immediately implement
any or all of the conservation measures deemed appropriate to conserve water
for the duration of the critical water period. Some of the measures include,
but are not limited to, restricting irrigation within the city's water service
area to specified hours or days, and discontinuing service to customers who
fail to fix leaks upon sufficient written notification and reasonable
opportunity to contest the discontinuance of service.
If adopted, this ordinance would become effective immediately and the mandatory
water conservation measures proposed will be implemented only during emergency
or critical water periods as declared by City Council. These proposed measures
will not only attempt to monitor and decrease water use in the city, but will
also help increase the public's awareness on the importance and severity of the
water situation in San Luis Obispo. It is hoped that the mandatory water
conservation measures and rate increase, together with efforts to increase
supply and the proposed growth control regulations, will bring the City out of
its current water shortage condition and one step closer to managing its most
precious resource more efficiently.
RECOMMENDATION:
Adopt the proposed Urgency Ordinance repealing the existing section 13.07.030
and adding sections 13.07.030-13.07.050 to Chapter 13.07 (Water Conservation)
and pass a resolution declaring a critical water period in San Luis Obispo.
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ORDINANCE NO. ( 1988 SERIES)
AN URGENCY ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF SAN LUIS OBISPO
REPEALING SECTION 13.07.030 AND ADDING SECTIONS
13.07.030-13.07.050 TO CHAPTER 13.07 (WATER CONSERVATION)
OF THE SAN LUIS OBISPO MUNICIPAL CODE AND
SETTING FORTH THE REASONS FOR ITS URGENCY
BE IT ORDAINED by the Council of the City of San Luis Obispo as
follows:
SECTION 1 . Section 13.07.030 of the San Luis Obispo Municipal Code
is hereby repealed.
SECTION 2. Sections 13.07.030 through 13.07.050 are hereby added
to Chapter 13.07 of the San Luis Municipal Code to read as follows:
13.07.030 Council water conservation powers.
When deemed necessary in the judgement of the City Council to
conserve water during critical water periods, the City Council may by
resolution declare an emergency condition and do any or all of the
following which in its judgement is deemed advisable after publication of
notice thereof in a newspaper of general circulation distributed in the
city or after reasonable notice thereof is otherwise given by the city to
users:
A. Limit irrigation within the city water service area to specified
hours, or prohibit irrigation entirely within the service area or any
portion or portions thereof;
B. Limit all customers inside the City water service area to
specified maximum usages of water for each category of users;
C. Implement other water conservation measures as deemed
appropriate.
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13.07.040 Utilities manager powers.
If the city council adopts a resolution declaring a critical water
period or any emergency in the water system as set out in Section
13.07.030, the utilities manager is authorized and directed to take any
appropriate action which in his judgement will best conserve water during
the duration of the emergency, said action may include, but is not limited
to the following:
A. Specify the days and/or hours during which water users may
irrigate.
B. Notify owner or owners of property in writing of leaks in the
water line on their private property and require repair of said leaks
within three days after said notification. Upon failure to comply, the
water department shall turn off the water on said property until the leak
is repaired. Service will be restored after the property owner corrects
the leak. Reconnection fees will be charged as set forth in section
4.20.080 (Restoration-reconnection charge) of this code;
13.07.050 Violations
A violation of this chapter shall constitute an infraction and may
be punishable by this code and/or result in discontinuance of water
service as provided in sections 13.04.180 (Discontinuance of service) and
4.20.080 (Restoration-reconnection charge).
SECTION 3. The Council declares that this ordinance is necessary
as an emergency measure to preserve the public health, maintain the city's
water supply, encourage water conservation and finds the following reasons
to exist for its urgency:
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1 . The City of San Luis Obispo has adopted a comprehensive water
conservation program; and
2. The rainfall which occurred the last two winters was
insufficient to provide adequate runoff into the reservoirs
from which the City's water supply is drawn; and
3. The water levels in the reservoirs have dropped to a point near
that where the City would not be able to assure a sufficient
supply of water to provide for its municipal demand without
immediate changes in demand or weather patterns.
SECTION 4. The Council does hereby adopt this as an urgency
ordinance which shall take effect immediately upon adoption, and a summary
of this ordinance, approved by the City Attorney, together with the ayes
and noes, shall be advertised within five (5) days of passage, however ,
failure to advertise will not affect its validity.
INTRODUCED AND ADOPTED by the Council of the City of San Luis
Obispo at a meeting held on the day of 1987, on motion
of seconded by and on the following
roll call vote:
AYES:
NOES:
ABSENT:
MAYOR RON DUNIN
ATTEST:
CITY CLERK PAM VOLES
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1 . The City of San Luis Obispo has adopted a comprehensive water
conservation program; and
2. The rainfall which occurred the last two winters was
insufficient to provide adequate runoff into the reservoirs
from which the City's water supply is drawn; and
3. The water levels in the reservoirs have dropped to a point near
that where the City would not be able to assure a sufficient
supply of water to provide for its municipal demand without
immediate changes in demand or weather patterns.
SECTION 4 . The Council does hereby adopt this as an urgency
ordinance which shall take effect immediately upon adoption, and a summary
of this ordinance, approved by the City Attorney, together with the ayes
and noes, shall be advertised within five (5) days of passage, however,
failure to advertise will not affect its validity.
INTRODUCED AND ADOPTED by the Council of the City of San Luis
Obispo at a meeting held on the day of 1987, on motion
of seconded by and on the following
roll call vote:
AYES:
NOES:
ABSENT:
MAYOR RON DUNIN
ATTEST:
CITY CLERK PAM VOGES
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RESOLUTION NO. ( 1988 Series)
A RESOLUTION OF THE COUNCIL OF THE
CITY OF SAN LUIS OBISPO DECLARING A CRITICAL
WATER PERIOD FOR THE CITY OF SAN LUIS OBISPO
WHEREAS, the City of San Luis Obispo obtains its water supply from
the Salinas and Whale Rock Reservoirs; and
WHEREAS, the runoff into the reservoirs has been below normal for
the last two year;;; and
WHEREAS, the City's water demand is currently exceeding the safe
annual yield of its reservoirs; and
WHEREAS, according to the Annual Water Operational Plan, the City
needs to reduce its water demand by fifteen to twenty-five percent; and
WHEREAS, mandatory water conservation measures are needed to reduce
this demand;
NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that in accordance with Municipal Code
Section 13.07.030 through 13.07.050, the City Council of the City of San
Luis Obispo hereby declares a critical water period.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that in order to conserve water during a
critical water period, the City Council hereby authorizes its staff to
implement the conservation measures described and authorized in the said
sections of the San Luis Obispo Municipal Code and any other conservation
measures as it deems appropriate for the duration of the critical water
period.
On motion of seconded by ,
and on the following roll call vote:
AYES:
NOES:
ABSENT:
the foregoing Resolution was passed and adopted this day
of 1987.
MAYOR Ron Dunin
ATTEST:
CITY CLERK Pam Voges
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