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storage areas. Further definition of activities covered is provided in 40 Code of Federal Regulations
<br />Section 122.26(b) and the Statewide Industrial General Permit.
<br />22. “Landscaping” means the planting and maintenance of trees, shrubs, lawns and other evergreen
<br />ground cover or material, including inorganic accessory materials utilized to accent or complement
<br />the vegetation.
<br />23. “Low impact development (LID)” uses site design and stormwater management to maintain the site’s
<br />pre-development runoff rates and volumes. The goal of LID is to mimic a site’s predevelopment
<br />hydrology by using design techniques that infiltrate, filter, store, evaporate, detain, and/or biotreat
<br />stormwater runoff on or near the site. At the site scale, GSI is a subset of LID. As LID practices are
<br />often implemented with GSI, these concepts are referred together as LID/GSI.
<br />24. “Lot” means a piece or parcel of land owned as a single unit in common ownership, occupied or
<br />intended to be occupied by a principal building or a group of such buildings and accessory buildings,
<br />or utilized for a principal use and uses accessory thereto, together with such open spaces as are
<br />required by this title, and having frontage on and access to an approved and accepted City of
<br />Pleasanton street that meets the standards of width and improvements as specified in the regulations
<br />of the City of Pleasanton contained in or adopted pursuant to the subdivision title and street
<br />improvement chapter as to the section and the frontage of the lot involved, or having frontage on and
<br />access to an approved private street.
<br />25. “Maximum extent practicable (MEP)” means a standard for implementation of stormwater
<br />management programs to reduce pollutants in stormwater to the maximum extent possible, taking into
<br />account equitable considerations and competing facts including, but not limited to, the seriousness of
<br />the problem, public health risks, environmental benefits, pollutant removal effectiveness, regulatory
<br />compliance, cost and technical feasibility.
<br />26. “Municipal Regional Stormwater NPDES Permit (MRP)” means the California Regional Water
<br />Quality Control Board San Francisco Bay Region Municipal Regional Stormwater NPDES permit
<br />issued to the City of Pleasanton, NPDES Permit No. CAS612008 and any subsequent amendment,
<br />reissuance, or successor to this NPDES permit.
<br />27. “Municipal separate storm sewer system (MS4)” means and includes, but is not limited to, those
<br />facilities within the City of Pleasanton by which stormwater may be conveyed to waters of the United
<br />States, including any roads with drainage systems, municipal streets, catch basins, curbs, gutters,
<br />ditches, manmade channels, or storm drains, which are not part of a publicly owned treatment works
<br />(POTW) as defined at 40 Code of Federal Regulations Section 122.2.
<br />28. “Non-stormwater discharge” means any discharge that is not entirely composed of stormwater.
<br />29. “NPDES” means National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System.
<br />30. “NPDES permit” means a NPDES permit issued by the United States Environmental Protection
<br />Agency, the State Water Resources Control Board, or a California Regional Water Quality Control
<br />Board pursuant to the Clean Water Act and the California Water Code that authorizes discharges to
<br />waters of the United States.
<br />31. “Person” means an individual, corporation, partnership, association, State, municipality, commission,
<br />or political subdivision of a State, or any interstate body.
<br />32. “Pollutant” means dredged soil, solid waste, incinerator residue, filter backwash, sewage, pet wastes,
<br />manure, garbage, sewage sludge, munitions, chemical wastes or byproducts, fuels, biological
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