§ 98-163. Definitions.

The following words, terms and phrases, when used in this article, shall have the meanings ascribed to them in this section, except where the context clearly indicates a different meaning:

Administrator means the city's general services director and his or her designees.

Administrative charge means the charge imposed for the actual cost of billing for, and collection of, storm drainage service fees.

Commercial/office use means the use of any developed parcel for any of the following or similar purposes: Offices, wholesale or retail sales, establishments, or the provision of personal, professional or business services, including but not limited to retail stores; shopping centers; restaurants; service stations; carwashes; vehicle, boat and trailer sales lots; parking lots; automobile repair and service facilities; auction yards; advertising offices; nurseries; general offices; financial service facilities; medical and dental offices, clinics and laboratories; and veterinary offices, clinics and hospitals.

Developed parcel means any parcel of land altered from its natural state by the construction, creation or addition of impervious area.

Equivalent contributing parcel area means the calculated area which, when multiplied by the impervious factor for the parcel's use classification, yields the parcel's measured impervious area.

Exempt use means the use of any public or undeveloped property and the use of any other parcel for any of the following purposes: agricultural land used for crops or pasture, aquatic farms, orchards, drainage ditches maintained by the city, property within a floodplain recognized by the city on which improvements are prohibited, and levees.

Fiscal year means the annual period beginning July 1 and ending June 30.

Impervious area means the total area of a parcel of property covered by an impervious surface.

Impervious factor (IF) means a factor which represents the percentage of impervious area on a parcel which consists of a numerical value that is calculated on the basis of generally accepted engineering standards, review and application of such standards to local conditions, and statistics compiled by measuring impervious areas depicted on aerial photographs of real property.

Impervious surface means any surface on or in any parcel which reduces the rate of infiltration of stormwater into the soil.

Industrial use means the use of any developed parcel for any of the following or similar purposes: to manufacture, fabricate, process or package products; to process or store food or chemical products, or for storage or warehousing purposes, including but not limited to processing, fabrication and assembly plants, warehouses, wrecking yards, aerospace facilities, truck and other transportation terminals, building materials storage, bakeries, canneries, wineries, creameries, meat and frozen food processing facilities, meat packing plants, slaughter yards, inspection and weighing stations, airports, railroads and railroad spurs, wells, electrical substations, water or sewage treatment plants, and ministorage facilities.

Institutional use means the use of any developed parcel for any of the following or similar purposes: Hospitals, nursing facilities, residential care facilities, retirement homes, day nurseries, mortuaries, churches, and schools.

Low impervious development use means the use of any developed parcel for any of the following or similar purposes: Golf courses, surface mines, cemeteries, marinas, and sports fields.

Multifamily residential use means the use of any developed parcel for any of the following or similar purposes: Triplexes, fourplexes, apartments, mobile home parks, hotels, boardinghouses and rooming houses, fraternity and sorority houses, motels, the common areas of condominiums and planned unit developments, and bed and breakfast inns.

Parcel means the smallest separately segregated lot, unit or plot of real property having an identified owner, boundaries, and surface area which is documented for property tax purposes and given a tax lot number by the county assessor.

Parcel area means the square footage of a parcel measured or estimated using the outside boundary dimensions in feet in order to obtain the total square footage without regard for any topographic features of the enclosed surface.

Person means any individual, firm, company, association, society, partnership, corporation, organization, group or public agency.

Public agency means the United States or any department or agency thereof, the state or any department or agency thereof, a city, a county, and any district or other local authority or public body of or within this state.

Public property means any property owned by a public agency.

Residential dwelling unit means any residential premises designed to house a single family.

Single-family residential use means the use of any developed parcel for any of the following or similar purposes: Single-family residences, condominiums and planned unit developments, row houses, halfplexes, duplexes, and mobile homes located on individually owned parcels.

Storm drainage system means the system of stormwater and surface water management facilities, including but not limited to inlets, conduits, manholes, channels, ditches, drainage easements, retention and detention basins, infiltration facilities, overland release corridors and other components as well as natural waterways.

Street means any public highway, road, street, avenue, way, alley or right-of-way.

Undeveloped use means any parcel that has not been altered from its natural state, as evidenced by a complete lack of impervious surface.

Unit service charge (USC) means the cost of storm drainage services attributable to storm drainage from one square foot of impervious area.

Use code means the six-digit alphanumeric code assigned by the county assessor's office to every parcel within the county.

User means the owner of a parcel of real property that is charged for storm drainage services.

Water agency means the county water agency.

(Ord. No. 97-01, § 2(15.10.030), 1-2-1997; Ord. No. 97-13, § 2, 3-26-1997; Ord. No. 97-17, § 2, 9-24-1997; Ord. No. 2018-001, § 1, 7-12-2018)

Cross reference

Definitions generally, § 1-2.