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Code of Maryville
Title 19 Stormwater
Chapter 5 Vegetated Buffer Zone And Stormwater Quality Management
Title 19 Stormwater
Chapter 5 Vegetated Buffer Zone And Stormwater Quality Management
Maryville
Title 19 : Stormwater
Chapter 5 : Vegetated Buffer Zone And Stormwater Quality Management
19-506 : General requirements.
- The WQMP shall include all of the required elements that are listed and/or described in the policy manual. The director of engineering and public works, or his/her designee, may require submittal of additional information in the WQMP as necessary to allow an adequate review of the existing or proposed site conditions. Omission of any required items shall render the plans incomplete and they will be returned to the applicant prior to review by the director of engineering and public works, or his/her designee.
- The WQMP shall be subject to any additional requirements set forth in the minimum subdivision regulations, zoning ordinance, the Land Development and Public Works Standards or other City of Maryville regulations.
- The WQMP shall be prepared and stamped by a professional engineer, landscape architect, or architect competent in civil and site design and licensed to practice in the State of Tennessee. Portions of the WQMP that require hydraulic and/or hydrologic calculations and design shall be prepared and stamped by a professional engineer competent in civil and site design and licensed to practice in the State of Tennessee.
- The approved WQMP shall be followed during grading and construction activities. Under no circumstance is the owner or operator of land development activities, or any person(s) acting on the owner's behalf, allowed to deviate from the approved WQMP without prior written approval of a plan amendment by the director of engineering and public works, or his/her designee.
- The approved WQMP shall be amended if the proposed site conditions change after plan approval is obtained, or if it is determined by the director of engineering and public works, or his/her designee, during the course of grading or construction that the approved plan is inadequate.
- The WQMP shall include a listing of any legally-protected state or federally-listed threatened or endangered species and/or critical habitat located in the area of development or redevelopment (if any), and a description of the measures that will be used to protect them during and after grading and construction. United States Fish and Wildlife approval is required for all protection measures.
- Other state and/or federal permits that may be necessary for construction in and around streams and/or wetlands shall be approved through the appropriate lead regulatory agency prior to submittal of a WQMP to the City of Maryville.
- BMPs, water quality buffers and water quality volume reduction areas shown in WQMPs shall be maintained through the declaration of a protective covenant, entitled "Covenants for Permanent Maintenance of Water Quality Best Management Practices" (covenant). The covenant must be approved by, and shall be enforceable by, the City of Maryville. The covenant shall be recorded with the deed and shall run with the land and continue in perpetuity.
- BMPs, water quality buffers and water quality volume reduction areas shall be placed into a permanent easement that is recorded with the deed to the parcel and held by the City of Maryville. A maintenance right-of-way or easement, having a minimum width of twenty feet (20') from a driveway, public road or private road shall also be provided.
- The owner or operator of any land development activities may be subject to additional watershed or site specific requirements other than those stated in this chapter in order to satisfy local, state or federal requirements, or where the director of engineering and public works, or his/her designee, has determined through stormwater master plans, engineering studies, a history of existing or documented water quality problems, or engineering judgment that additional restrictions are needed to limit adverse impacts of the proposed development on water quality or channel protection. Areas subject to additional requirements may also include developments, redevelopments or land uses that are considered pollutant hotspots.
- The director of engineering and public works, or his/her designee, may waive or modify the requirements of the chapter if adequate water quality treatment and channel protection are suitably provided by a downstream or shared off-site BMP, or if engineering studies determine that installing the required BMP(s) would actually cause adverse impact to water quality or cause increase channel erosion or downstream flooding. (1999 Code, § 19-706)
Date Last Updated: 12/22/2025
Codification Date: 06/01/2024
Officials at Date of Last Codification:
Mayor - Andy White
Vice-Mayor - Fred Metz
Council Member - Sarah Herron
Council Member - Tommy Hunt
Council Member - Drew Miles
City Manager - Greg McClain
Assistant City Manager - Kevin Stoltenberg
City Recorder/Financial Services Director - Sherri Phillips
City Attorney - Melanie Davis