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23 Special Meeting January 18, 1982 Page 2 MAINTENANCE CRITERIA; PROVIDING FOR THE GRANTING OF VARIANCES; PROVIDING AN APPEAL PROCESS; PRO- VIDING PENALTIES; PROVIDING FOR CONFLICT WITH OTHER ORDINANCES; PROVIDING FOR SEPARABILITY AND DECLARING AN EFFECTIVE DATE. Mrs. Norris moved to approve the Ordinance on first reading and Mrs. Mendez seconded the motion. City Manager A. C. Gonzalez advised the Council that Mr. Troy Ulmann from the City of Austin, who had worked on ordinances of this type regarding Barton and Williamson Creeks, had been consulted and certain criteria placed in the Ordinance at his suggestion. Kelley Kilber advised the Council he felt the Or- dinance was too restrictive regarding the 15% slope criteria. The Council voted unanimously in favor of approval of the Ordinance on first reading. Mayor Craddock introduced for consideration an Ordinance on first reading, the caption which was read as follows: AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SAN MARCOS, TEXAS, ADOPTING A CHAPTER TO BE ADDED TO THE CODE OF ORDINANCES OF SAID CITY, SAID CHAPTER TO BE ENTITLED "LANDSCAPING AND BUFFERING" AND TO BE NUMBERED CHAPTER 14 1/2, DEFINING TERMS; SETTING REQUIREMENTS FOR THE AMOUNT OF LAND WHICH MUST BE DEVOTED TO LANDSCAPING AND BUFFERING; EXEMPTING THE CENTRAL BUSINESS DISTRICT FROM SAID REQUIRE- MENTS FOR THE PLANTING AND/OR PRESERVATION OF TREES; PROVIDING FOR THE REVOCATION OF SAID CREDITS IF SAID TREES DIE; DESCRIBING APPLICABILITY TO NEW AND EXIST- ING DEVELOPED AREAS; SETTING STANDARDS FOR THE INSTAL- LATION OF LANDSCAPING AND BUFFERING AREAS; ESTABLISH- ING PLANTING CRITERIA; REQUIRING A PLOT PLAN; EXEMPT- ING SINGLE-FAMILY DETACHED RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY FROM THE REQUIREMENTS FOR PROVISION OF A PLOT PLAN; GRANT- ING THE PLANNING AND ZONING COMMISSION POWER TO GRANT EXCEPTIONS IN SPECIFIED CASES; ASSIGNING ENFORCEMENT RESPONSIBILITIES; PROVIDING FOR AN APPEALS PROCESS; PROVIDING FOR SEPARABILITY; PROVIDING FOR THE FILING OF RULES, REGULATIONS, STANDARDS AND SPECIFICATIONS; PRESCRIBING PENALTIES AND DECLARING AN EFFECTIVE DATE. Mr. Brown moved for the approval of the Ordinance on first reading and Mrs. Norris seconded the motion. City Manager A. C. Gonzalez stated this would require all property development to provide 20 percent land- scaping or a credit for the installation or keeping of existing trees. The credit would be allowed if one-half the radius underneath the trees was left undeveloped. The requirement would exempt "R-l" (Single- Family Residential Dwelling) zoning. Mr. Harvey Ginsburg requested the Council to provide some provision that natural waterways be left in their natural state. Mrs. Norris moved the wording in the Hillside Development Ordinance on Page 6, Section c. (i) - "Natural drainage patterns shall be preserved whenever possible", be added in the gen- eral requirements under Section 14 1/2 - 5 of this Ordinance and Mr. Brown seconded the motion. The City Attorney then advised the Council that she had been instructed to exempt the Central Business District from the requirements cited in 14 1/2-4A(1) but through error had not done so and suggested this amend ment be considered by the Council. Mr. Kreczmer then suggested that Mrs. Norris' motion for amendment to Section 14 1/2 - 5 be more specific. After some discussion, Mayor Craddock requested Mrs. Norris to rephrase her motion. Mrs. Norris then stated that the water needs to be redirected at timæ for preven- tion of flooding buildings, such as in the case of Crockett School where the water was rechanneled. Mrs. Norris then rephrased her mo- tion to amend 14 1/2 - 5 to read "Drainage ways shall be maintained in their natural state insofar as possible", and Mr. Brown seconded the motion, which passed unanimously.