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Page 48 0-81-165 A BILL FOR AN ORDINANCE ADOPTING REGULATIONS DESIGNED TO LESSEN HAZARDS TO PERSONS AND PROPERTY CAUSED BY INCREASED STORM WATER RUNOFF AND TO OTHERWISE PROMOTE THE PUBLIC HEALTH, SAFETY, AND GENERAL WELFARE SECTION 1. Title - This ordinance shall be known as the Storm Water Management Ordinance of the City of Lakewood, Colorado. SECTION 2. Purpose - In order to promote the public health, safety, and general welfare of the citizens of Lakewood, Colorado, these storm water management regulations are enacted for the general purpose of assuring the proper balance between use of land and the preservation of a safe and beneficial environment. More specifically, the provisions of these regulations are intended to reduce property damage and human suffering and minimize the hazards of personal injury and loss of life due to flooding. This is to be accomplished by establishing runoff control, establishing responsibilities for maintenance and operation, and establishing technical standards and criteria for implementa- tion of storm water management. SECTION 3. words and terms be construed as General Interpretation. For purposes of this ordinance, the used, defined, interpreted, or further described herein shall follows: City. The City of Lakewood, Colorado. Control Structure. A facility constructed to regulate the rate of discharge of storm water. Development, Any man-made change to real estate or property, including buildings or other structures, streets, parking lots, mining, dredging, filling, grading, paving, or excavating. Director. The City Administrator or his/her designee, Easement. Authorization by a property owner for use by another party or parties of all or any portion of his/her land for a specified purpose, Emergency Excess Storm Water Passage. A channel or swale formed in the ground surface to carry storm water runoff through a specific area. Excess Storm Water. That portion of storm water runoff which exceeds the transportation capacity of storm sewers or natural drainage channels serving a specific watershed. Infill Development, The development of land which 1) has previously been subdivided or 2) is described by a metes and bounds description and which can legally be developed without subdivision. Natural Drainage, Water which flows by gravity in channels formed by the surface topography of the earth prior to changes made by the efforts of man.