The Crown Point City Council held a first reading on Ordinance 2025-12-35, a comprehensive update to Chapter 157 of the city code covering stormwater management.

Luke Sherry of Christopher Burke Engineering summarized the changes and told the council the update is largely administrative: "Now it's called CSGP or construction stormwater general permit," he said, describing IDEM’s renaming and the intent to make the city’s ordinance consistent with statewide permitting procedures. Sherry said the current ordinance dated from 2006 and that the revision spells out permit submittal and coordination practices to reduce administrative confusion between the city and IDEM.

Council moved to read the ordinance by title only and advance it to a second reading on Dec. 18; the motion carried on a unanimous roll-call vote. Staff said the update is intended to codify current practice and clarify language rather than impose wholesale technical changes to local standards.