For the purpose of this chapter, the words and phrases shall be defined as follows, unless
the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
(b) "Approved Plans" shall mean plans approved under Section 929.13.
(c) "City" shall mean the City of Trotwood, Ohio.
(d) "City Manager" shall mean the City Manager of the City of Trotwood.
(e) "Council" shall mean the Council of the City of Trotwood.
(f) "County" shall mean the County of Montgomery, Ohio.
(g) "Developer" shall mean a person, firm, partnership, corporation, or other entity that excavates, fills, builds structures, or otherwise improves a specific parcel or tract of land.
(h) "Equivalent Residential Unit" shall mean the value, based on the average Impervious Surface (as defined herein) for detached single-family homes within the City, that represents a unit of Stormwater runoff. This value is used to facilitate comparison of the number of billing units of various properties.
(i) "Facilities" shall mean various drainage works that may include inlets, conduits, manholes, energy dissipation structures, catch basins, channels, outlets, retention/detention basins, and other structural components.
(j) "Impervious Surface" shall mean surfaces on or in a lot or parcel of real Property that substantially reduce the rate of infiltration of Stormwater into the earth.
(k) "Non-Residential Property" shall mean Property and improvements thereon used for commercial, industrial or institutional purposes.
(l) "Notice" shall mean a written or printed communication conveying information or warning.
(m) "Order" shall mean the whole or any part of the final disposition (whether affirmative, negative, injunctive, or declaratory in form) or any matter issued by the City Manager or person designated by him or her pursuant to any provisions of this chapter.
(n) "Premises" or "Property" shall mean any parcel or lot and the buildings situated thereon.
(o) "Private" shall mean that Property or Facilities owned by individuals, corporations, and other organizations and not by City, state, or federal government.
(p) "Residential Property" shall mean Property improved with and used as a single-family residence, including detached homes and condominium units and multifamily residential units.
(q) "Sediment Control Plan" shall mean a plan required by an ordinance, rule, or regulation for controlling the movement of soils due to Storm runoff created by construction activities.
(r) "Storm" and "Stormwater" as used in this chapter are interchangeable terms.
(s) "Stormwater Management Code" shall mean Chapter 929 of the City of Trotwood Codes of Ordinances.
(t) "Stormwater System" shall mean all man-made Facilities, structures, and natural watercourses used for collecting 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: inlets, conduits and appurtenant features, canals, creeks, channels, catch basins, ditches, streams, gulches, gullies, flumes, culverts, siphons, retention or detention basins, dams, floodwalls, levees, and pumping stations.
(u) "Storm Sewer" or "Storm Drain" shall mean a sewer which carries Stormwaters, surface runoff, street wash waters, and drainage, but which excludes sanitary sewage and industrial wastes, other than unpolluted cooling water.
(v) "Total Square Footage of Surface Area of Lot or Parcel of Real Property," for the purpose of calculating the Impervious Surface of a non-single-family residential lot or parcel of real Property, shall mean the square footage of a lot or parcel measured or estimated by using the outside boundary dimensions in feet to obtain the total enclosed square footage, without regard for topographic features of the enclosed surface. The boundary dimensions in feet of the enclosed surface area may be established by any of the following methods:
(1) On-site or photogrammetric measurements of the apparent outside boundary dimensions of the lot or parcel of real Property made by the City or on its behalf; or
(2) Computation of the area using dimensions of lot or parcel of real Property and/or area measurements which are set forth and contained in the records of the office of the County Recorder or Auditor.
(w) "TWSSD" shall mean the Trotwood Storm Sewer District.
(x) "Undeveloped Land" shall mean a piece or parcel of land that is without any building, structure or improvement, or other impervious area, including but not limited to paved parking lots. It does not mean recreation, green or open space created around private or municipal Facilities or parcels connected thereto or contiguous with such Facilities for such reason.
(Ord. 35-05. Passed 9-19-05.)