(a) Generally.
(1) No person, business, corporation, public agency, partnership, or association whatsoever located in the South Bass Island Water Improvement Project Area, and served or to be served by a connection to the water system, shall connect, or cause to be connected, any building or other structure, either directly or indirectly, without first paying to the Village, or having assessed by Ottawa County, in addition to other charges provided for by the ordinances of the Village, a capital cost surcharge calculated by multiplying the base rate of one thousand eight hundred and seventy-two dollars ($1,872.00) by the equivalent dwelling units (E.D.U.s) the parcel/lot is assigned, or anticipated to be assigned, as of the date of assessment, or the date of application for connection to the water system.
(2) Commencing June 1, 2011, the base rate for the water system connection impact charge shall be three thousand dollars ($3,000) per residential equivalent dwelling unit, until December 31, 2011. Commencing January 1, 2012, the base rate for the water system connection impact charge shall be adjusted by the Engineering News Record (ENR) construction cost multiplier published for January of each year, and the base rate as so increased shall be the base rate per E.D.U. applicable for that year.
(b) Dwelling Unit Equivalency Factors. The equivalency factors set forth below shall form the basis for calculating the capital cost surcharge for a property. The equivalency factors are based upon the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency suggested flow guide and are computed on the basis of the probable demand a user places on the public water system. The probable flow rate demand is correlated to the demand expected by a single-family dwelling by the use of the equivalency factors shown below. The minimum equivalency factor that shall be met is one when computing fees and charges, unless one E.D.U. already exists on the property. Equivalency factors for types of uses not listed shall be determined by the Village Administrator, by the use of accepted engineering practices on the basis of anticipated flows for the property.
UNIT EQUIVALENCY FACTORS
Types of Land Use | Unit Equivalent | |
Single-family dwelling | per dwelling | 1.000 |
Apartments | per apartment | 1.000 |
Condominiums | per unit | 1.000 |
Mobile homes (free standing) | per unit | 1.000 |
Mobile home parks | per home space/lot | 1.000 |
Rental cottages | minimum per cottage | 1.000 |
Efficiency rental | per unit | 0.625* |
Assembly halls | per seat | 0.005* |
Types of Land Use | Unit Equivalent | |
Boat docks | ||
Indiv. owned without dwelling | per dock space | 0.100 |
Indiv. owned with dwelling | per dock space/parcel-lot | 1.000 |
Bowling alleys (no food service) | per lane | 0.188 |
Car wash | per automatic bay | 1.500 |
per manual bay | 1.000 | |
Churches | ||
with no kitchen | per seat | 0.011* |
with kitchen | per seat | 0.017* |
County clubs | per person | 0.125* |
Dance halls | per person | 0.005* |
Dormitories/barracks | per bed | 0.0625 |
Drive-in theaters | per car space | 0.013* |
Factories | ||
with no showers | per employee | 0.063* |
with showers | per employee | 0.088* |
Food service operations | ||
restaurant (not 24 hours) without liquor license | per seat | 0.088* |
restaurant (not 24 hours) with liquor license | per seat | 0.176* |
restaurant (24-hour service) without liquor license | per seat | 0.125* |
restaurant (24-hour service) with liquor license | per seat | 0.250* |
banquet rooms | per seat | 0.013* |
tavern-without food service license | per seat | 0.088* |
tavern-with food service license | per seat | 0.176* |
drive-in service | per space | 0.125* |
restaurant (along freeway) | per seat | 0.250 |
Gas (fuel) station | first pump island | 2.500 |
per additional pump island | 1.250 | |
Types of Land Use | Unit Equivalent | |
Hospitals | per bed | 0.750 |
Institutions | per person | 0.250* |
Laundries (coin-operated) | per machine | 0.350 |
Marinas | per dock, rack and storage space | 0.100** |
Motels/sleeping cabin/guest room | per unit | 0.250* |
Nursing and rest homes | per patient | 0.375* |
per resident employee | 0.250* | |
per non-resident employee | 0.125* | |
Office buildings | per employee | 0.050* |
R.V. parks and camps (primitive) | per space | 0.125* |
R.V. park and camps (full service) | per space | 0.313* |
Recreation parks | per park capacity | 0.010* |
Retail store | per employee | 0.050* |
School (elementary) | per pupil | 0.038* |
School (junior and high) | per pupil | 0.050* |
Shopping center | per 100 square feet, no food/laundry | 0.050* |
Swimming pool (with no showers) | per swimmer (capacity) | 0.010* |
Swimming pool (with showers) | per swimmer (capacity) | 0.018* |
Youth and recreation camps | per person (capacity) | 0.125* |
* Total equivalent factor per establishment shall be a minimum of one. ** If a person owns a mobile home (trailer) or recreational vehicle (travel trailer) and a dock space simultaneously within the same subdivision or parcel of land, that person’s E.D.U. shall be based upon a mobile home or R.V. only. | ||
(c) Payment of capital cost surcharge. Where a connection is to be made to the water system within County Project Area, either directly or indirectly, and the lot or land to be serviced by the connection has not been specially assessed for the capital cost surcharge, or if specially assessed, if the use of the lot or land has changed by the date of actual connection and the E.D.U.s attributable to the lot or land have increased, the owner thereof shall pay, prior to making a connection, in addition to other charges established by the ordinances of the Village, a one-time, up-front capital cost surcharge calculated in accordance with division (a) of this section.
(d) The imposition of the capital cost surcharge provided for in this section shall not preclude the subsequent levy of special assessments against benefitted properties to provide funds for the construction, replacement, rehabilitation or other improvement of water mains required to provide water service to such properties, and the charges provided for in this section are in addition to any other permits and charges required by law or ordinance.
(e) In the event that any lot or land or building or other structure thereon is connected directly or indirectly to the water system in violation of any of the provisions of this section, and the owner, agent, lessee, tenant or occupant of such lot or land fails or refuses to disconnect the same upon being directed to do so by the Village Administrator, the Village Administrator is authorized to cause such lot or land to be disconnected from the water system, and the violator shall be liable to the Village for the cost of making such disconnection.
(f) Whoever violates any provision of this section shall upon conviction be guilty of a misdemeanor of the first degree and shall be fined not more than one thousand dollars ($1,000.00) nor less than fifty dollars ($50.00) for each offense, and a separate offense shall be deemed to have been committed for each day that such violation continues after a period of 30 days following the original conviction.
(Ord. 875-06. Passed 2-15-06; Ord. 1016-11. Passed 5-9-11.)