(A) (1) The City Council finds that the city’s storm drain system, waste treatment system, culinary water system, and solid waste collection system are interrelated services that are part of a unified city plan to provide for the health, safety and welfare of the city and its residents in an environmentally responsible manner. Therefore, the Storm Drain Utility fee shall be included on the city’s regular monthly utility bill for any given property. If there is no regular utility bill for the property, the Storm Drain Utility fee shall be charged to the owner of the property. The fee shall be deemed a civil debt owed to the city by the person or entity paying for the city utility services provided to the property. All properties shall be charged the fee, regardless of whether or not the owner or occupant of the property requests the Storm Drain Utility services.
(2) Failure to pay any portion of the utility bill may result in termination of other utility services. The Storm Drain Utility fee shall, from time to time, be set by resolution.
(B) Non-single-family residential parcels will be assessed a fee based on the actual amount of impervious surface on the parcel. Single-family residential parcels will all be assessed a common fee, based on the average amount of impervious surface area found on single-family residential parcels in the city. The City Council finds that the common fee for single-family residential parcels is justified because of the following:
(1) Each single-family residential parcel contributes approximately the same amount of storm water runoff; and
(2) It would be impractical and difficult to administer the utility if each single-family residential parcel were measured individually.
(C) (1) The City Council finds ESUs to be of the most accurate measurement for determining the amount that each parcel contributes to, benefits from, and otherwise uses the Storm Drain Utility.
(2) The City Council establishes the amount of impervious surface included in each ESU to be equal to the average amount of impervious surface found on single-family residential parcels. Therefore, each single-family residential parcel will pay the fee for one ESU.
(Prior Code, § 24.05.060) (Ord. 00-22, passed 6-1-2000)