(A) Rates and charges for the use and availability of the system are to be determined through the use of a "residential equivalent factor" which assesses the amount of runoff from an average single-family urban parcel during a standard ten-year rainfall. Calculations for the storm water utility for other land uses are based upon their residential equivalency factor. The rates for commercial/industrial, institutional, and higher density residential land uses also take into consideration the amount of hard surface on the property and the acreage of the site.
(B) Other land uses not listed in the fee ordinance table are to be classified by the City Administrator either by assigning them to the land use classification with the most similar hydrologic response or based on the amount of site impervious surface. Appeals from the City Administrator's determination of the property classifications may be made to the City Council in the same manner as other appeals from administrative determinations.
(C) The storm water utility fee for use of the city's storm water management facilities shall be determined by resolution of the City Council, from time to time, and shall be just and equitable. Charges made for the use of the facilities may be fixed by reference to a reasonable classification of the types of premises to which the service is furnished, or by reference to the quantity, pollution qualities, and difficulty of disposal of the water, or in any other equitable basis including, but without limitation, any combination of those referred to above.
(Ord. 576, passed 10-27-2008)