(A) Classes of building sewer permits. There shall be four classes of building sewer permits:
(1) Residential;
(2) Commercial;
(3) Industrial; and
(4) Special service areas.
(B) Schedule of tap-on fees.
(1) Residential. Except as hereinafter set forth in division (B)(4) below, the sewer tap fee for all existing sewers made within the corporate limits of the city per residential unit or dwelling: $100.
(2) Commercial. Except as hereinafter set forth in division (B)(4) below, the sewer tap fee for all commercial sewers shall be the greater of the following:
(a) Five hundred dollars; or
(b) One dollar and sixty-three cents per gallon times the expected average daily flow in gallons per day to the extent that the average daily sewage flow exceeds 300 gallons per day.
(3) Industrial. The sewer tap fee for all industrial users is negotiable between the city and the industrial user.
(4) Special service areas. The sewer tap fee for special service areas shall be as follows.
(a) Special service area number one. Areas serviced by the southwest lift station located at the intersection of West St. Louis Street and Willowbrook Drive: $550; and
(b) Special service area number two. Areas serviced by the “Little Nashville” lift station and the Enterprise Avenue lift station located along the State Route 127 North Corridor: the sewer tap fee for special service area number two shall be the greater of the following formulae:
1. Minimum fee: $2,000 per unit;
2. Acreage served: $2,050 per acre in the development as platted and surveyed for the development; or
3. One dollar and sixty-three cents per gallon per day per sewer usage. Such sewerage usage shall be assessed as estimated by the user. The fee shall be reassessed after the first full year of usage and adjusted based on actual usage.
(C) Credits for service area number two.
(1) Sales tax credit. A credit of 25% of the total city sales tax revenue generated by each user after the first full year of service shall be applied toward the sewer tap fee assessment. The city sales tax shall be estimated by the users and applied toward the initial tap fee. The City Utility Superintendent shall be granted access, as a condition to the city’s provision of sewerage service to the user, to the sales tax audit after one full year of operation in order to make adjustments, if necessary, to the user’s previous estimate.
(2) Jobs.
(a) A credit shall be applied for each newly created job based on the following formula: a $300 credit for each newly created job having a Social Security wage base in excess of $18,700 per year.
(b) Such credit shall be based on an estimate by the user at the time of construction. After one year of usage, the City Utilities Superintendent shall, as a condition for the city’s provision for sewerage service to the user, inspect the payroll of the user to make such adjustments based on actual payroll.
(c) To the extent each newly created job generates less than an annual social security wage base of $18,720, the following credit schedule shall apply:
1. Eighteen thousand seven hundred dollars to $15,000: 85% credit ($225 per job);
2. Fourteen thousand nine hundred and ninety-nine dollars to $10,000: 50% credit ($150 per job);
3. Nine thousand nine hundred ninety-nine dollars and $5,000: 25% credit ($75 per job); and
4. Under $5,000: no credit.
(d) Job relocation within the city corporate limits shall receive a 50% credit.
(D) Actual fee. The highest actual dollar value generated from division (B) above minus the total credit value generated in division (B) above equals actual sewer tap fee. In no case shall the actual fee be less than the minimum fee.
(1978 Code, § 13.08.150) (Ord. 503, passed - -1977; Ord. 95-8, passed - -1995)