Ord 160ORDINANCE NO. 160
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CI~f OF POWAY, CALIFORNIA
REPEALING SMCTION 8.60.140 CF THE
POWAY MUNICIPAL CODE, AND ADDING
SECTION 8.60.140 AAD S~.CTION 8.60.141,
ESTABLISHING CITY OF POWAY
STAhDARDS FOR SEPTIC SYSTMMS
THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY CF POWAY DOES HEREBY ORDAIN that the Poway
Municipal Code Section 8.60.140 is hereby repealed and that Section 8.60.140 and
8.60.141 are added as follows:
Section 8.60.140: Findings and Declaration of Intent.
The City of Poway has an overriding interest in planning and regulating the
use of property within the City. Implicit in any plan or regulation is the
City's interest in maintaining the quality of life and the character of the
City's neighborhoods. Without adequate facilities for sewage disposal, sections
of the City can quickly deteriorate, with tragic consequences to social,
environmental, and econc~ic values.
A concentration of individual structures in certain areas of the City
disposing of sewage into septic systems will cause such areas of the City to
deteriorate and result in a threat to public health, safety and welfare. It is
the City's intent to protect and prc~ote the health, safety and general welfare
of the community by instituting a comprehensive ordinance for the issuance of
building permits for the construction of any structure which my use for the
disposal of sewage a septic system. It is the further intent of the City to
assure the c~mpatability between the proposed structure or facilities and the
particular site and other existing and potential uses within the general area.
Without the additional requirements imposed in Section 2, the building of
additional structures using septic systems constitutes a current and inm~odiate
threat to the public health, safety, and welfare of the cc~munity.
Section 8.60.141: Permit Required to Construct Septic Tank
No septic tank, settling tank, seepage pit, cesspool, subsurface tile line
system, or any other subsurface sewage disposal unit or system, or any part
thereof, shall be installed, constructed, reconstructed, repaired in any manner,
or added to, in the City unless there is in effect a valid permit therefor
issued by the Director of Public Services n~eting all of the following
requirements:
The Director of Public Services shall review and approve all septic
system applications prior to su~nuittal to the San Diego County Health
Department.
2. No septic system shall be installed on a parcel of land less than one
acre in size.
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No septic system shall be installed within 200 feet of an intermittent
stream unless the entire system, including leach lines, are a minimtm~
of ten (10) vertical feet above the high water line.
This ordinance shall take effect and be in force thirty (30) days after the
date of its passage; and before the expiration of fifteen (15) days after its
passage, it shall be published once with the names and members voting for and
against the same in the Poway News Chieftain, a newspaper of general circulation
published in the City of Poway.
Introduced and first read at a regular meeting of the City Council of the
City of Poway held the 19th day of February, 1985, and thereafter PASSED AND
ADOPTED at a regular ~cting of said City Council held the 26th day of February,
1985, by the following roll call vote:
AYES: COUNCII24EMRF. RS: El{USE, ORAV~C, SHEPARDSON, TARZY, ~
Marjor.~e K. Wahlsten, City Clerk