Within the Port Colborne IPZ-1 and IPZ-2 Niagara Region and the City of Port Colborne shall ensure that stormwater runoff volume and pollutant loadings from future land development are reduced by:

(a) encouraging implementation of a treatment train approach and reliance on a hierarchy of source, lot-level, conveyance and end-of-pipe controls;
(b) encouraging the implementation of innovative stormwater management measures;
(c) allowing for flexibility in development standards to incorporate alternative community design and stormwater techniques, such as those related to site plan design, lot grading, ditches and curbing, road widths, road and driveway surfaces, and the use of open space as temporary detention ponds; and
(d) supporting implementation of source control programs, which are targeted to existing areas that lack adequate stormwater controls.

Municipalities shall require that an application for commercial or industrial development or the expansion, extension, or alteration of existing stormwater management facilities or the expansion of an existing commercial or industrial development within the Port Colborne IPZ-1 and IPZ-2 shall be accompanied by a stormwater management plan that demonstrates consistency with these stormwater management measures and any Best Management Practices identified in the stormwater Management Master Plan (PC-18).

M3: By February 1st of each year, Niagara Region shall report to the Source Protection Authority on the steps it has taken in the previous calendar year to implement significant threat policies.

M6: By February 1st of each year, the City of Port Colborne shall report to the Source Protection Authority on the steps it has taken in the previous calendar year to implement the significant threat policies.