(A) Stormwater utility service fees shall accrue on the date determined by the Board of Commissioners and set forth in the City's fee schedule. Stormwater service charges shall apply to all property within the City limits that is served by the City's stormwater system without regard to ownership. Such charges shall be based on the amount of impervious surface on each parcel as determined by the equivalent residential unit standard.
(B) Stormwater utility service fees shall be based on a commonly accepted rate unit for stormwater utilities, the equivalent residential unit (ERU). The ERU is used to relate a base rate fee charged to a single-family residential property to that charged to a non-single-family residential property. The City's ERU is two thousand three hundred (2,300) square feet of impervious surface area. The ERU is determined by analyzing digital photographs and, for verification purposes, performing field checks of a representative sample of single-family residences within the city limits.
(1) All single-family and multi-family residential units will be charged one ERU per month.
(2) All commercial/non-residential properties will be charged based on total square footage of impervious surface per month.
(Ord. 23-O-11, passed 10-23-2023)