(1) Stormwater utility fees shall be established for a period of time as set by City Council ordinance. The City Administrator shall annually review rates and make recommendations to the Council for adjustments in the rates and other charges. Such recommendations to the Council regarding rate adjustment shall be based upon annual report of the operations of the utility, including an account of all monies or revenue received and disbursed, together with a working budget estimate of the needs of the utility.
(2) Determination. The stormwater utility fee shall be determined based on the total impervious surface coverage throughout the city. Exempt land uses shall be excluded from the computations. The proportion of residential and non-residential impervious coverages shall be calculated. The total residential fee and non residential fee is determined using the respective impervious proportion and the annual utility revenue.
(3) Residential fee. The residential fee is charged per parcel to those parcels with single family residential, multi-family residential, and rural residential land uses. This includes single family, duplexes, and townhomes. This does not include multi-family buildings consisting of three or more units where one or more of the units does not have primary ground floor access to the outside.
(4) Non-residential fee. The non-residential fee is charged per acre of impervious surface to those parcels with airport, commercial, government facilities, house of worship, industrial, schools, and utility land uses. Multi-family buildings consisting of three or more units where one or more of the units does not have primary ground floor access to the outside, are included in this grouping.
(Ord. 07-21, passed 8-23-2021)