(A) Procedures and standards developed by the Director and a representative of the Engineering Department shall define appropriate means by which to optimize development capital contributions in the implementation of basic specific stormwater systems. These basic specific capital contributions shall take the form of fee-in-lieu-of or availability charges. Each situation will be analyzed by the Director and a specific written decision will be developed. The application of each is defined as follows:
(1) Fee-in-lieu-of is applied to a site specific procedure, wherein a development's stormwater contribution (quantity and quality) is assessed to determine its share of the capital needs of the facilities required to serve the development in question. This capital contribution would be used to implement city-owned stormwater facilities. The process does not apply wherein the stormwater facilities are privately held. Each application is evaluated against the city's stormwater master plan for the watershed involved, or while the master plan is incomplete, the cumulative impacts from the development.
(2) Availability charge is administered on a site specific basis identical to the fee-in-lieu-of procedure noted above; the only difference is that the capital investment advanced by the city in implementing a stormwater facility is now recovered through an availability charge. The capital charge is determined on a pro-rata share of the capacity used by the new applicant or by the cumulative impact from the development upon all impacted facilities.
(Ord. O-93-52, passed 10-20-93)