The purpose of the Watershed Protection and Development Review Department is to protect lives, property, and the environment of our community by reducing the impact of flooding, erosion, and water pollution and providing comprehensive development review and inspection services.

1. Goal: Protect lives, property, and the environment from the impact of flooding, erosion, and water pollution by:
   • Maintaining and improving water quality.
     • Construct water quality controls to reduce stormwater pollutants from 5,200 acres by FY 2007.
     • Conduct business inspections and spill response to recover a total of 1,100,000 gallons and 125 cubic yards of pollutants in FY 2008.
     • Maintain or improve baseline levels of the Environmental Integrity Index (water, sediment and recreational quality, aquatic habitat and physical integrity) in 50% of watersheds evaluated.
     
     
   • Reducing flood impacts to life and property.
     • Provide 10% of threatened structures with increased flood protection through drainage system improvements by FY 2008.
     • Prevent loss of life due to flooding.
     
     
   • Creating a stable stream system that decreases property loss from erosion and increases the beneficial uses of waterways.
     • Repair 1.0% of localized erosion sites annually and restore 4,000 linear feet of stream channel annually by FY2012.
     
     
   • Providing adequate maintenance of drainage infrastructure.
     • Continue to maintain 93% of residential dry ponds on an annual basis as inventory continues to increase through FY 2010.
     • Complete 14 localized erosion site projects and 500 feet of stream channel stabilization providing increased erosion protection to property on an annual basis by FY 2008.
   
   
2. Goal: Provide the public with a single One Stop Shop location for development needs to promote efficient use of citizen and City time and resources.
   • • Ensure that development is in compliance with regulations in an efficient and effective manner by achieving 95% of Code-mandated review and inspection deadlines by FY 2008.
     • Perform 95% of building inspections within 24 hours.
     • Perform more than 50,000 environmental inspections in FY 2007.
   
   
3. Goal: Maintain 100% of activities in compliance with Federal and State permits and regulatory requirements.