No person, firm or corporation shall develop any real property as hereinafter described, or connect or cause to be connected any building or structure, either directly or indirectly, with a drain for the removal of surface, roof, ground or other water to be discharged into a ditch, swale, waterway, stream or an existing storm drainage system from any real property hereinafter described without complying with the following performance standards and paying the charges hereinafter set forth:
(a) For all developments to be improved within the City, a storm drainage system shall be designed and constructed by the developer using an on-site retardation basins and/or on-site underground storage facilities which shall reduce the developed storm water run-off from the development to seventy-five percent of the existing undeveloped storm water run-off using a ten-year design storm as set forth in the Uniform Standards for Sewage and Drainage Improvements as adopted by the Cuyahoga County Municipal Engineers most recent addition as embodied and codified as Appendix I.
(b) For all developments to be improved within the City a drainage charge per gross acre of area to be developed, prorated at the rate of one thousand one hundred dollars (1,100.00) per acre shall be charged by and paid to the City prior to the issuance of a building permit. The charges herein above provided shall be deposited into a special fund entitled “Storm Drainage Capital Improvement Fund” and shall be used only for the construction of storm drainage improvements within the City.
(c) Should the City require a developer, upon the recommendation of the City Engineer, to reduce the developed storm water run-off from the development to increase the minimum requirement set forth in subsection (a) hereof, in order to further reduce the peak storm water discharge to the City’s drainage system, or to reduce the number of retardation basins to be constructed and maintained within the City, or to combine the storm water storage requirements for two or more developments in one retardation basin at a better site, the City may enter an agreement, through the Mayor, with the approval of Council, with the developer under the following conditions:
(1) On any on-site retardation basin and/or on-site underground storage facility, the City will set off the drainage charge set forth in subsection (a) hereof by an amount equal to the estimated construction costs, including the cost of extra land area, if any, to such developer for the construction of the enlarged retardation basin and/or underground storage facility which is over the estimated construction costs for the retardation basin and/or underground storage facility required under subsection (a) hereof. The estimated construction costs for both the retardation basin and/or underground storage facility required under subsection (a) hereof and the enlarged one(s) shall be determined by the City Engineer and the determination of the City Engineer shall be final.
(2) The maximum set-off in the drainage charge as set forth in subsection (a) shall not exceed one thousand one hundred dollars ($1,100.00) per acre of area to be developed.
(d) The owner of a parcel or lot of land, in excess of one acre, upon which is located a one-family residence and as long as used as a one-family residence thereafter, shall be required to pay the fee computed as provided herein for the erection thereto of an addition to the dwelling or the erection of a detached structure two times the square foot area plus any additional square foot area as determined by the City Engineer after a review of the site plan occasioned by more than average roof area, sidewalks, driveways or other improvements increasing run-off prorated on the basis of the present acreage charge at the time of the improvement.
(Ord. 95-94. Passed 1-16-96.)