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 1045.13.
(c) “City” shall mean the City of Vandalia, Ohio.
(d) “City Manager” shall mean the City Manager of the City of Vandalia.
(e) “Council” shall mean the Council of the City of Vandalia.
(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 storm water 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) “VSSD” shall mean the Vandalia Storm Sewer District.
(k) “Impervious Surface” shall mean surfaces on or in a lot or parcel of real property that substantially reduce the rate of infiltration of storm water into the earth.
(l) “Nonresidential Property” shall mean property and improvements thereon used for commercial, industrial, or institutional purposes.
(m) “Notice” shall mean a written or printed communication conveying information or warning.
(n) “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.
(o) “Premises” or “Property” shall mean any parcel or lot and the buildings situated thereon.
(p) “Private” shall mean that property or facilities owned by individuals, corporations and other organizations and not by City, State or Federal government.
(q) “Single-Family Residential Property” shall mean property improved with and used as a single-family residence, including detached homes and condominium units.
(r) “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.
(s) “Storm” and “Storm Water” as used in this chapter are interchangeable terms.
(t) “Storm Water Management Code” shall mean Chapter 1045 of the Vandalia Codified Ordinances.
(u) “Storm Water System” shall mean all man-made facilities, structures, and natural watercourses used for collecting and conducting storm water 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.
(v) “Storm Sewer” or “Storm Drain” shall mean a sewer which carries storm waters, surface runoff, street wash waters, and drainage, but which excludes sanitary sewage and industrial wastes, other than unpolluted cooling water.
(w) “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 photogram metric 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.
(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. 03-20. Passed 1-5-04.)