Ord 91-117
ORDINANCE NO.
91-117
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY
OF FEDERAL WAY, WASHINGTON, AMENDING ORDINANCE
NO. 90-32 BY AMENDING THE RATE STRUCTURE FOR
STORM AND SURFACE WATER UTILITY.
WHEREAS, RCW 35.67 authorizes the City to establish a
Storm Water utility; and
WHEREAS,
the
City
of
Federal
Way
had
previously
established a storm and Surface Water Utility by ordinance No.
90-32; and
WHEREAS,
surface water management is an increasingly
important function of the City's protection of the health, safety
and welfare of its citizens; and
WHEREAS, the existing rate structure of the City's Storm
and Surface Water Utility is not adequate to support the necessary
~aintenance, operations, and capital improvements of the surface
and storm water management system, given the increased surface and
storm water runoff within the City of Federal Way; and
WHEREAS, under the utility's present rate schedule the
total anticipated revenues for 1992
are expected to fall short of
the
anticipated
necessary
maintenance,
operation
and
capital
expenditures by over one million dollars; and
WHEREAS,
the
deficiencies
between
the
anticipated
revenues
and
necessary
maintenance,
operation
and
capital
expenditures
are
expected
to
increase
annually
thereafter,
indicating
an
inability
of
the
existing
rate
structure
to
adequately support the storm water management program necessary for
the City of Federal Way; NOW, THEREFORE,
COpy
THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF FEDERAL WAY, WASHINGTON,
DOES HEREBY ORDAIN AS FOLLOWS:
section 1.
Ordinance No. 90-32, Section 6. Rate Structure,
is amended as follows:
Section 6.
Rate Structure.
A.
The services charges shall be based on the relative
contribution of increased surface and storm water
runoff from a given parcel to the surface and storm
water
management
system.
The
percentage
of
impervious surfaces on the parcel and the total
parcel
acreage
will
be
used
to
indicate
the
relative
contribution
of
increased
surface
and
storm water runoff from the parcel to the surface
and storm water management system.
The relative
contribution of increased surface and storm water
runoff from each parcel determines that parcel's
share of the service charge revenue needs.
The
service charge revenue needs of the utility are
based upon all or any part, as determined by the
Council, of the cost and expense within the service
area
of
maintaining
and
operating
storm
water
control facilities, all or any part of the cost and
expense
of
planning,
designing,
establishing,
acquiring, development, constructing, and improving
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c.
any of such facilities, or to payor secure the
payment of all or any portion of any issue of
general obligation or revenue bonds issued for such
purpose.
B.
The
Public
Director
Works
shall
determine
the
service charge for each parcel within the service
area by the following methodology:
Residential and
very light non-residential parcels shall receive a
flat rate service charge for the reasons set forth
in section 5.
Parcels shall be classified into the
appropriate rate category in subsection C of this
section by their percentage of impervious surface
coverage.
Land use codes and data collected from
parcel investigations will be used to determine
each
parcel's
impervious
percentage
of
surface
coverage.
After a parcel has been assigned to the
appropriate rate category, the service charge for
the parcel will be calculated by multiplying the
total acreage of the parcel times the rate for that
category.
There
is
hereby
imposed
all
developed
upon
properties
in
the
service
area
annual
service
charges as follows:
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Impervious Surface
Class
Percentaae
Rate
Residential (R)*
NA
$70.39
~2£.98/parcel/year
Very Light (VL)
0 - 10%
$70.39 $26.97/parcel/year
Light (L) **
10 - 20%
$164.24 ~/acre/year
Moderate (M)**
20 - 45%
$340.23 $126.91/acre/year
Moderately Heavy (MH)**
45 - 65%
$659.99 $243.33/acre/year
Heavy (H) **
65 - 85%
$832.98 $39S.51/acre/year
Very Heavy (VH)**
85 -100%
$1091.07~4e4.19/acre/year
City and County Roads
NA
$244.19 ~ 99. 44/acre/year
state Highways
NA
***
* Parcel is owned by and is the personal residence
of a person or persons determined by the Public
Works Director as qualified for a low income senior
citizen property tax exemption under RCW 84.36.381,
then the parcel shall be exempt from the service
charge and the annual flat rate charge set forth in
D. of this section.
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**
The minimum
service
charge
shall
be ~
$70. 39/parcel/year.
The maximum annual
service
charge for mobile home parks shall be $29.89 times
per the number of mobile home spaces.
***
The
rate
charged
to
the
Washington
state
Department of Transportation will be determined in
accordance with RCW 90.03.525.
D.
An additional flat rate charge of $3.82 per year
will be added to each service charge bill to pay
for the operation of the billing system.
E.
The Council by ordinance may supplement or alter
charges within specific basins and sub-basins of
the service area so as to charge properties or
parcels of one basin or sub-basin for improvements,
studies, or maintenance which the Council deems to
provide service or benefit the property owners of
one or more basin(s) or sub-basin(s).
section 2.
Ratification.
Any act consistent with the
authority and prior to the effective date of this ordinance is
hereby ratified and affirmed.
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section 3 .
Severabilitv.
The provisions of this
ordinance are declared separate and severable.
The invalidity of
any clause, sentence, paragraph, subdivision, section, or portion
of this ordinance or the invalidity of the application thereof to
any person or circumstance, shall not affect the validity of the
remainder of the ordinance, or the validity of its application to
other persons or circumstances.
Section 4.
Effective Date.
This ordinance shall be
effective
five
(5)
days
after passage
and publication of
an
approved summary of this ordinance.
PASSED by the City Council of the City of Federal Way
this
10th
day of
December
, 1991.
CITY OF FEDERAL WAY
a~/1 , ~
YOR, DEBRA ERTE
FILED WI H THE CITY CLERK:
PASSED BY THE CITY COUNCIL:
PUBLISHED: 12/13/91
EFFECTIVE DATE: 12/18/91
ORDINANCE NO. 91-117
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