The City Council recognizes that the control and regulation of stormwater drainage is necessary to protect the environment and the public health safety and welfare. The Council hereby finds that:
(1) In the exercise of its governmental authority the city has constructed, operated, and maintained a stormwater system;
(2) It is necessary and desirable to provide a method of recovering the future costs of improving, maintaining, and operating the system by establishing a program of user charges;
(3) In imposing charges, it is necessary to establish a methodology that undertakes to make them just and equitable to assign responsibility for some or all of the future costs of operating, maintaining, and improving the system on the basis of the expected stormwater runoff from the various parcels of land with the city; and
(4) Assigning costs and making charges based upon impervious coverage can only be accomplished within reasonable and practical limits. The provisions of this chapter establishes a reasonable and practical methodology from making such charges.
(Ord. 07-21, passed 8-23-2021)