In the exercise of its government authority and in order to promote the public health, safety, convenience and general welfare, the city has constructed, operated and maintained a storm water drainage system. This chapter is adopted in the further exercise of that authority and for the same purposes. The system, as constructed heretofore, has been financed and paid for through the imposition of special assessments and ad valorem taxes. It is necessary and desirable to provide an additional method of recovering some or all of the future costs of improving, establishing, enlarging, replacing, repairing, maintaining and operating the system through the imposition of charges as provided in this chapter. In imposing charges, it is necessary to establish a methodology that undertakes to make charges just and equitable. Taking into account the status of completion of the system, past methods of recovering system costs, the topography of the city and other relevant factors, it is determined to be just and equitable to assign responsibility for some or all of the future costs of improving, establishing, enlarging, replacing, repairing, maintaining and operating the system on the basis of the expected storm water runoff from the various parcels of land within the city during a standard rainfall event.
(1969 Code, Ch. 97 Subd. 2) (Ord. 333, passed 1-18-2005)