Access Management Document-Proposed Version 1.2

Right-Of-Way Management

• Administrative Rule for Bulk Permits Public Utility Right-of-way Management Ordinance
  (Version 1.0 - July 1, 2003)
  Pursuant to the Public Utility Right-of-Way Management Ordinance (PURM) approved by the St. Joseph City Council on 28 April, 2003, and under the rule making process provided for in Section 25-90 of St. Joseph City Code, the Department of Public Works and Transportation hereby establishes the Administrative Rule for Bulk Permitting.
• Public Utility Right-of-way Management Ordinance
  The City Council finds that the enactment of a Public Utility Right-of-Way Management Ordinance will have a beneficial impact on all of the citizens of the City.

Civil Engineering Standards
In 2001, the City of St. Joseph adopted the Kansas Chapter of the American Public Works Association's "Standard Specifications and Design Criteria" as its design standard for the Department of Public Works & Transportation. This action was taken to provide a more widely recognized engineering standard to guide the design of infrastructure within the City. The standard covers items from roadway design, pavement design, storm water, sanitary sewer, erosion control, etc...

• Erosion Control-Land Disturbance Policy
  A soil erosion control plan shall accompany all applications for land disturbance permits. The purpose of the plan is to clearly establish what measures will be taken to prevent erosion and off site sedimentation during and after development.
• Stormwater Management
  Stormwater Management is important in St. Joseph because its intended goal to retain or detain stormwater discharges after development at no greater rate than it was discharged before development. Fundamentally, it is a pre-post policy. Properly designed facilities are designed to remove the potential of downstream flooding resultant from new development.
  
  Stormwater policies are required of cities or urban concentrations with populations of 50,000 or greater. Engineered facility design may result in detention facilities (structures that hold water for storage and release it at a given rate) or retention facilities (structures that store water and only discharge when certain volumes are exceeded). Some designs can result in above ground structures, underground, pipe storage, etc.
• Survey Control Requirements
  More accurate horizontal and vertical control has been established for the City of St. Joseph via a contract with Midland Survey, Inc. By locating existing control in the field and applying new technology available to make more accurate the vertical and horizontal grids, sufficient control now exists throughout the corporate limits to reference on all projects submitted to St. Joseph for new plats, and municipally funded projects. Because this information is utilized in a geographic information system, it is very important that all information submitted be tied to these points and submitted with the appropriate references. Plans and plats that do not will be rejected as incomplete. Information concerning the physical location and coordinates of the points can be found by clicking on the station names below, along with all surveying references.

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