No Shreveport building permit issues for work that converts more than 2,500 square feet of pervious surface to impervious unless the plans include stormwater detention. Detention ponds must be maintained and are inspected annually for a fee.
Chapter 34, Article III makes the city engineer the gatekeeper: building permit applications on covered lots go to engineering with a survey or lot sketch, a drainage report and a drainage plan, and the engineer approves, requires changes or disapproves within ten days. Sites over one-half acre, other than a single-family dwelling, must detain the volume from a 100-year design storm and release it at the ten-year design storm rate, with a minimum one foot of freeboard on the pond. Smaller sites detain the ten-year storm. Inside the Ockley Ditch basin and flood-sensitive areas, any change to existing impervious surface triggers detention regardless of size.
Written notice to cease, administrative fines up to $500 per day per violation, water shutoff, property liens, and misdemeanor conviction carrying up to 60 days.
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