(A) Before connecting to the city water or sewer system, city sewer and water connection charges based on the number of "units" shall be paid. If, after the initial connection charges are paid, additional building permits or new sewer and water connections are made, the charges shall be recalculated and any additional charges shall be paid. The city connection charge per unit and area charge shall be established by City Council resolution.
(B) The number of units shall be computed as follows.
(1) The following types of residential housing each comprise one unit per dwelling unit:
(a) Single-family houses: a single-dwelling unit;
(b) Townhouses: a multi-dwelling with potential for laundry facilities included in each unit; and
(c) Duplex units, apartments and condominiums: a multi-dwelling with potential for laundry facilities included in each unit.
(2) Apartments and condominiums shall each comprise 80% of a unit if there is no plumbing for laundry facilities within each dwelling unit.
(3) Mobile homes shall each comprise 100% of a unit.
(4) Other buildings and structures shall be assigned one water unit for each 548 gallons per day of water usage and one sewer unit for each 274 gallons per day of sewage flow which it is estimated they will discharge. Commercial and industrial building units shall be assigned a minimum of one unit. The most recent Standard Criteria published by the Metropolitan Waste Control Commission will be used as a guideline for determining the number of units for various commercial, industrial and institutional facilities.
(5) Multi-dwelling public housing units and multi-dwelling housing units subsidized under any government program for low-and-moderate-income housing shall be counted as 75% of the unit equivalent for that type of housing if there is no garbage disposal and dishwasher. The 75% rate applies to the townhouses rate when laundry facilities or hookups are included in each unit, or the 80% apartment rate if laundry hookups are not included in each unit.
(Prior Code, § 3.07) (Ord. 172, effective 3-22-1996; Ord. 264, passed 8-17-2006)