24-2021 - Amend Part 9 to establish Impervious Surface Fee

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(s) "Industrial pretreatment" means a regulatory program administered by the City for the purpose of permitting and monitoring the discharge of industrial wastewater into the wastewater disposal system. (t) "Recovery period" means the thirty-year period during which the industrial cost recovery charge shall be imposed upon industrial units of service of the wastewater disposal system. (u) "Replacement costs" means those costs incurred in obtaining and installing equipment, accessories or appurtenances which are necessary during the service life of the wastewater disposal system to maintain the capacity and performance for which the wastewater disposal system was designed and constructed. (v) "Residential property" means all single-family properties, 2-family, and 3-family properties within the City of Lakewood. (w) "Residential unit of service" means, for purposes of system charges, any aggregation of space or area occupied as a single residence, and any apartment or flat which is equipped with one or more fixtures for supplying sewer service separate and distinct from the other users on the premises. In multi -unit dwellings, only those divisions of the building shall be considered as units of service where the suite or apartment has facilities for cooking. (x) "Square footage of impervious area" means, for the purpose of assigning an appropriate number of ERUs to a parcel of real property, the square footage of all impervious area using the outside boundary dimensions of the impervious area to include the total enclosed square footage, without regard for topographic features of the enclosed surface. (y) "Stormwater" means stormwater runoff, snowmelt runoff, and surface runoff and drainage. (z) "Treatment plant" means the facility forming a part of the wastewater disposal system which is utilized primarily to treat wastewater flows. (aa) "User charge" means the fee imposed by Section 902.03 upon all units of service of the treatment works in a total amount sufficient to pay the costs of operation and maintenance, including costs of replacement of the wastewater disposal system. (bb) "Wastewater" means the water and water -borne wastes discharged into the wastewater disposal system from premises on which any structure has been erected. (aa) "Wastewater disposal system" includes all lateral, main and intercepting sewers, lift stations, pumps, sewage treatment and disposal plant or system, and structures and other appurtenances for the collections, transportation, treatment and disposition of wastewater and stormwater. This shall not include plumbing inside or in connection with buildings services or service sewers from a building to the street lateral. Section 5. That new Section 902.02 Necessity for Charges is hereby enacted to read as follows: 902.02 Necessity for Charges. It is hereby determined necessary for the protection of the public health, safety and welfare and to conform with federal, state and local laws and regulations that a system of charges for wastewater disposal service be established which allocates the cost of providing wastewater disposal service to each user in such a manner that the allocated costs are proportionate to the cost of providing wastewater disposal service to that user, insofar as those costs can reasonably be determined. Section 6. That Section 902.03 System Charges of the Lakewood Codified Ordinances, currently reading as follows: 902.03 SYSTEM CHARGES. System charges are hereby imposed upon all units of service in a total amount sufficient to pay the costs of the treatment system. System charges consist of general property tax, variable charges and industrial pretreatment charge. (a) A general property tax of two mills shall be used solely for payment of capital costs.