ACTION REQUESTED:
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Communication from the City Manager and the Community Development Director with a Request to ADOPT an ORDINANCE Adding the Definitions of Cultivated, Native Plants, and Noxious Weeds, and Amending the Definition of Weeds in CHAPTER 13 of the City of Peoria CODE.
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BACKGROUND: The City of Peoria is proposing to add the definitions of cultivated, native plants and noxious weeds, and to amend the definition of weeds in order to promote the use of rain gardens in the city.
Rain gardens reduce rain runoff by allowing storm water to soak into the ground rather than flowing into storm drains and surface waters which causes erosion, water pollution, flooding, and diminished groundwater.
FINANCIAL IMPACT: N/A
NEIGHBORHOOD CONCERNS: None expressed.
IMPACT IF APPROVED: The definitions of cultivated, native plants, and noxious weeds will be added and the definition of weeds will be amended in Chapter 13 of the City of Peoria Code.
IMPACT IF DENIED: The definitions of cultivated, native plants, and noxious weeds will not be added and the definition of weeds will not be amended in Chapter 13 of the City of Peoria Code.
ALTERNATIVES: N/A
EEO CERTIFICATION NUMBER: N/A
WHICH OF THE GOALS IDENTIFIED IN THE COUNCIL’S 2014 - 2029 STRATEGIC PLAN DOES THIS RECOMMENDATION ADVANCE?
1. Attractive Neighborhoods with Character: Safe and Livable
WHICH CRITICAL SUCCESS FACTOR(S) FROM THE COMPREHENSIVE PLAN DOES THIS RECOMMENDATION IMPLEMENT?
1. Reinvest in neighborhoods.
2. Support sustainability.
DEPARTMENT: Community Development