For the purpose of this chapter, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
"AVERAGE RESIDENTIAL IMPERVIOUS AREA." The average square footage of impervious area on one and two family residential properties in the city as determined by sampling the one and two family residential properties.
"CITY." The City of Florence, Kentucky.
"CLASS A PROPERTIES." One and two family residential properties.
"CLASS B PROPERTIES." All other properties, including, but not limited to, apartment buildings having units for three or more families and institutional, commercial, industrial, agricultural, and governmental properties.
"DEVELOPED." The condition of real property altered from its natural state by the addition to or construction on the property of impervious ground cover or other man-made physical improvements such that the hydrology of the property or a portion thereof is affected.
"DEVELOPER." A person, form, partnership, corporation or other entity that excavates, builds or otherwise improves a specific parcel or tract of land.
"DRAINAGE SERVICE CHARGE." The fee levied upon all developed real property within the boundaries of the city.
"EQUIVALENT SERVICE UNIT (ESU)." The billing unit used in the formula for generating charges for properties. The "ESU" for all one and two family residential properties shall be one. The "ESU" for each Class B property is calculated by dividing the impervious area of a property by the average residential impervious area, and rounding to two decimal points.
"EXISTING." Present or in effect as of the time of the adoption of this ordinance.
"FACILITIES." Various flood control, drainage works and storm water systems that include but are not limited to inlets, conduits, manholes, energy dissipation structures, channels, outlets, retention basins, detention basins, other structural components, ditches, floodwalls, basins, pipes, walls, channels, creeks, ponds, drainage easements, drainage rights-of-way, drainage dedications, and other interests in property used, dedicated, controlled, possessed, maintained or leased by the City, for drainage purposes, together with all appurtenances which connect or assist in drainage of water or flood control.
"IMPERVIOUS SURFACE." Those hard surface areas either which prevent or retard the entry of water into the soil in the manner that the water entered the soil under natural conditions pre-existent to development, or which cause water to run off the surface in greater quantities or at an increased rate of flow than that present under natural conditions pre-existent to development, including, without limitation, the surfaces as roof tops, asphalt or concrete paving, driveways, and parking lots, walkways, patio areas, storage areas, or other surfaces which similarly affect the natural infiltration or runoff patterns existing prior to development.
"PREMISES." A lot or parcel, and the building and other improvements situated thereon.
"STORM." and "STORM WATER." and "SURFACE WATER." They are used as interchangeable terms.
"STORM WATER SYSTEMS." or "STORM WATER DRAINAGE." All man-made facilities, structures, and natural water courses used for collecting and conducting storm water to, through and from drainage areas to the points of final outlet including, but not limited to, any and all of the following: inlets, conduits, appurtenant features, canals, creeks, channels, catch basins, ditches, streams, gullies, flumes, culverts, siphons, retention or detention basins, dams, floodwalls, levies, and pumping stations.
"STORM SEWER." or "STORM DRAIN." A sewer which carries storm waters, surface runoff, and drainage, but which excludes sanitary sewage and industrial waste other than unpolluted cooling water.
"SYSTEM." The "STORM AND SURFACE WATER DRAINAGE SYSTEM," created herein, which consists of the entire system of flood protection and storm water drainage and surface water runoff facilities owned or leased by the city or over which the city has right of use for the movement and control of storm drainage and surface water runoff, including both naturally occurring and man-made facilities.
"UNDEVELOPED." That condition of real property unaltered by the construction or addition to the property by man of impervious ground cover or physical man-made improvements of any kind which change the hydrology of the property from its natural state.
(Ord. O-27-92, passed 9-22-92)