For purposes of this Chapter, the following words, terms, and phrases shall have the meanings given to them in this Section, except where the context clearly indicates a different meaning:
(a) "Commercial Property" means any parcel of real estate in this Village other than real estate containing one to four residential units. "Commercial Property" does not include single-family residential units such as condominiums, townhouses, manufactured housing, or homes in a subdivision when sold, leased, or otherwise conveyed on a unit-by-unit basis, even though these units may be a part of a larger building or parcel of real estate containing more than four residential units. "Commercial Property" also does not include real estate owned by a public authority as defined in Section 1311.25 of the Ohio Revised Code.
(b) "Manufactured home" means a building unit or assembly of closed construction that is fabricated in an off-site facility and constructed in conformance with the federal construction and safety standards established by the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development pursuant to the "Manufactured Housing Construction and Safety Standards Act of 1974," 88 Stat. 700, 42 U.S.C.A. 5401, 5403, and that has a permanent label or tag affixed to it, as specified in 42 U.S.C.A. 5415, certifying compliance with all applicable federal construction and safety standards.
(c) "Mobile home" means a building unit or assembly of closed construction that is fabricated in an off-site facility, is more than thirty-five body feet in length or, when erected on site, is three hundred twenty or more square feet, is built on a permanent chassis, is transportable in one or more sections, and does not qualify as a manufactured home as defined in division (C)(4) of Section 3781.06 of the Ohio Revised Code or as an industrialized unit as defined in division (C)(3) of Section 3781.06 of the Ohio Revised Code.
(d) "Residential building" means a one-family, two-family, or three-family dwelling house, and any accessory structure incidental to that dwelling house. "Residential building" includes a one-family, two-family, or three-family dwelling house that is used as a model to promote the sale of a similar dwelling house. "Residential building" does not include an industrialized unit as defined in 3781.06 of the Ohio Revised Code, a manufactured home as defined by this chapter or a mobile home as defined by this chapter.
(e) “Residential Property” means a manufactured home, mobile home or residential building as defined in this section.
(f) "Service Area" shall mean all real property within the corporate limits of the Village, including all real property legally annexed thereto.
(g) “Stormwater management service charge” shall mean a service charge applicable to a residential property or a commercial property that generally reflects the impact on or demand for stormwater management services provided by the Village to properly control and manage the quantity and/or quality of Stormwater runoff associated with the residential or commercial property.
(h) "Stormwater" means flows from rainfall or otherwise produced by, or resulting from, the elements, storm water discharges and releases or migrations of waters from properties, accumulations, flows, and overflows of water, including accelerated flows and runoffs, flooding and threats of flooding of properties and structures, and other surface and subsurface drainage.
(i) "Stormwater Drainage Facilities" means storm sewers, force mains, pumping stations and facilities for the treatment, disposal, impoundment, retention, control, or storage of waters; improvements of or for any natural or structural channel, swale, ditch, drain, floodway, or watercourse, including location, construction, reconstruction, reconditioning, widening, deepening, cleaning, removal of obstructions, straightening, boxing, culverting, tiling, filling, walling, arching, or change in course, location, or terminus; improvements of or for a river, stream, creek, or run, including reinforcement of banks, enclosing, deepening, widening, straightening, removal of obstructions, or change in course, location, or terminus; facilities for the protection of lands from the overflow of water, including a levee, wall, embankment, jetty, dike, dam, sluice, revetment, lake, pond. reservoir, swamp, wetland, retention or holding basin, control gate, or breakwater; facilities for controlled drainage, regulation of stream flow, and protection of an outlet; the vacation of a ditch or drain; equipment and furnishings; and all required appurtenances and necessary real estate and interests in real estate.
(j) "Stormwater Drainage System" means all Stormwater Drainage Facilities and natural watercourses owned by the Village, or over which the Village has jurisdiction by law to operate or maintain, used for collection and conducting Stormwater to, through, and from drainage areas to the points of final outlet including, but not limited to, any and all of the following: conduits and appurtenant features, canals, channels, creeks, catch basins, ditches, streams, gulches, gullies, flumes, culverts, siphons, streets, curbs, gutters, dams, floodwalls, levees, retention or detention facilities, rivers, swales, swamps, wetlands, and pumping stations.
(k) "Stormwater Management Program" means an identified set of measures and activities designed to protect, restore and/or manage Stormwater quality by controlling and/or reducing pollutants, and/or to reduce and/or manage Stormwater quantity by controlling velocity, volume and rate.
(l) "Utility" shall mean the stormwater management utility established pursuant to this Chapter.
(Ord. 16-1133. Passed 4-18-16.)
(Ord. 16-1133. Passed 4-18-16.)