For purposes of establishing stormwater service fees pursuant to IC § 8-1.5-5-7, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
AMOUNT BILLED. The ISA is divided by the ERU. The result is multiplied by the user fee to arrive at the amount to be billed.
EQUIVALENT RESIDENTIAL UNIT (ERU). The average impervious surface area of 50 residential properties selected at random. This number is 3.497 square feet.
IMPERVIOUS SURFACE AREA (ISA). Square footage of a parcel of land that is covered by concrete, asphalt, building(s), stone or other material that speed up the runoff of stormwater from a developed site.
TYPE A PROPERTY. Properties containing a single family residence, or an apartment with an individual water meter, in which only the owner or renter, the family of the owner or renter, or a single family resides, where no form of agreement allows for two or more families to live there, and no business is conducted there.
TYPE B PROPERTY. All properties not categorized as Type A. This includes, but is not limited to, all businesses, churches and other places of religious affiliation, schools, colleges, mobile home or manufactured home parks, condominium complexes that are part of private residential communities, community centers, apartment complexes with common rather than individual water meters, city owned buildings, parks, retirement complexes, duplexes with common rather than single family residence.
(Ord. 24-2004, passed 6-7-04)