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<br />PROPOSED AMENDMENTS TO GENERAL PLAN ELEMENTS FOR NPDES <br /> <br />Amendment recommendations are noted in italic below: <br /> <br />Public Safety Element <br /> <br />(page 19) <br /> <br />Existing Objective: Effectively manage risks <br />earthquakes, floods, fires and hazardous materials. <br /> <br />associated <br /> <br />with <br /> <br />Proposed Objective: <br />zones and establish <br />the project site". <br /> <br />UPreserve wetlands, riparian corridors, and buffer <br />reasonable limits on the clearing of vegetation from <br /> <br />Proposed Implementation Policy: uLimi t disturbance of natural water <br />bodies and drainage systems to conserve natural areas; protect slopes <br />and channels; and minimize impacts from storm water and urban runoff on <br />the biological integrity of natural drainage systems and water bodies". <br /> <br />Existing Implementation Program that <br />policy: Cooperate in the completion <br />River channel and Santiago Creek. <br /> <br />relates to proposed objective and <br />of improvements to the Santa Ana <br /> <br />Conservation Element <br /> <br />(page 22-23) <br /> <br />Existing Goal: <br />resources. <br /> <br />Preserve, maintain and properly use natural and cultural <br /> <br />Existing Objective: Integrate natural and cultural resources protection <br />measures into land use and development activities. <br /> <br />Existing Policy & proposed addition: Encourage water conservation <br />through design and facilities features of new developments...add: through <br />U the use of water quality wetlands, biofiltration swales, watershed- <br />scale retrofits, etc, where such measures are likely to be effective and <br />technically and economically feasible". <br /> <br />Proposed policy: uEstablish development guidelines for areas particularly <br />susceptible to erosion and sediment loss". <br /> <br />Proposed policy: uProvide for appropriate permanent measures to reduce <br />storm water pollutant loads in storm water from the development si te". <br /> <br />Proposed policy: "Minimize changes in hydrology and pollutant loading; <br />require incorporation of control, including structural and non-structural <br />and Best Management Practices to mi tigate the projected increases in <br />pollutant loads and flows". <br /> <br />EXHIBIT 1 <br /> <br />15D~~2 <br />