Title
Approval of an ordinance on third reading with the caption reading: AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF PFLUGERVILLE ADOPTING THE 2014 ENGINEERING DESIGN MANUAL AND CONSTRUCTION STANDARDS, REPLACING ALL ENGINEERING AND CONSTRUCTION STANDARDS IN CONFLICT; CONTAINING A SAVINGS CLAUSE; CONTAINING A SEVERABILITY CLAUSE; AND DECLARING AN EFFECTIVE DATE.
Summary
In accordance with Section 3.14 of the City charter which requires an ordinance for the adoption or amendments to an administrative code or regulations pertaining to land use or development, the Engineering Design Manual has been updated to reflect current industry engineering and construction standards.
The Engineering staff has spent the last 18 months working to update the 2005 Engineering Design Guidelines to develop the 2014 Engineering Design Manual. Over the years, staff has heard from numerous developers as well as consultants on issues with current design requirements which cause conflicts during design and do not provide the best benefit to the entire public infrastructure system. Engineering staff worked directly with the Planning Department so that both the 2014 Engineering Design Manual and the updated Unified Development Code incorporate cross referenced material for ease with any future updates. With the updated manual, new sections of the guidelines are being added such as Traffic Impact Analysis criteria and Lift Station Design criteria. All other sections of the previous 2005 version of the Engineering design guidelines were updated to meet the City’s current standards and be more in line with development regulations for the region. The updated revisions made simple changes such as establishing the minimum size of public utility pipe to be 8” rather than 6”, and new minimum depth of utilities were implemented. Other sections such as streets and drainage included further technical design criteria which was not previously mentioned in the 2005 version. In the previous 2005 sections, cr...
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