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Deparcrœnt of Water Resources, information from the Edwards Underground Water District and the Edwards Aquifer Research and Data Center, "percolation tests, core samples and other such tests and data as may be required by the Director of Environment and Eng ineering . II SECTION 5. '!hat Subsection 1 of Section H of Article VI, SUbdivision Design Requirements, of Appendix C of the Code of Ordinances of the City of San Marcos, Texas, is hereby arœnded to add the following: . .. No building permit shall be issued by the City of San Marcos for construction if that proposed construction will cross a lot line. SECTION 6. That SUbsection 3 of Section H of Article VI, SUbdivision Lesign Requirerœnts, of Appendix C of the Code of Ordinances of the City of San Marcos, 'Iexas, is hereby repealed and the following new sections be added. H. .. 3. Minimum lot sizes over the outcrop of the Edwards and Assœiated Lirœstone. a. The minlinum size of a lot within the outcrop o~ the Edwards and Assœiated Lirœstone which utilizes private sewage facilities, or a lot which utilizes a private sewage facility that will penetrate the Edwards and Assœiated Limestone, shall be the sarœ minimum lot size that is required under Title 31, Part 331, Subchapter A. of the 'Iexas \Vater Code and the rules of the Texas Water Developrœnt Poard for the Edwards Aquifer, and as hereafter amended. b. A determination as to whether a lot is within or a private sewage facility will penetrate the Edwards and assœiated LiID?stone shall be determined as in Article VI, Section F. of tlìis regulation. 4. Nothwithstanding Section 3 above, when pri va te sewage facilities are to be utilized on a lot, the lot shall be designed to acconmodate the proper and effective function of the private sewage facility and a private water well, if a pri vate water well is to be utilized. IDts using private sewage facilities shall be designed or configured based on a minimum of one (1) percolation test for every two (2) acres and one (1) core sanple for every five (5) acres soil samples, and other tests as required by the Director of Environrœnt and Engineering or the Planning CoITUdssion. Additional percolation tests and core samples may be ordered if resul ts of previous tests in the linmediate area, geolCXJica1 evidence of unusual faul ting, fractures or other recharge structures, and the size of the subdivision warrant such additional tests as determined by the Director of Enviroruœnt and Engineering. SECTION 7. These amendments and this ordinance as a whole are hereby declared to be rerœdial and shall be construed to secure the beneficial interests and purposes thereof, which are the advancement of the public good, safety, health, and welfare. That the importance of this Ordinance creates an emergency and an linperative public necessity so that the provisions of the Charter requiring that ordinances shall be presented at three separate rœetings and that no ordinance shall becorœ ef fecti ve until the expiration of ten (10) days following the date of its final passage be suspended, and these provisions are hereby suspended, and this Ordinance shall take effect and be in full force and effect from and after its adoption and after its publication in a newspaper of general circulation within the Ci ty .