Procedures and standards developed by the Director shall define appropriate means by which to optimize development capital contributions in the implementation of basic specific stormwater systems. These basic specific capital contributions shall take the form of “fee-in-lieu-of” or “availability charges”. Each situation will be analyzed by the Director, and a specific written decision will be developed. The application is defined as follows:
(1) Fee-in-lieu-of is applied to a site-specific negotiated procedure, wherein a development's stormwater contribution (quantity and quality) is assessed its share of the capital needs of the facilities required to serve the development in question. This capital contribution would be used to implement city-owned stormwater facilities. The process does not apply wherein the stormwater facilities are privately held. Each application is evaluated against the city's stormwater master plan for the watershed involved or, while the master plan is incomplete, the cumulative impacts from the development.
(2) Availability charge is administered on a site- specific basis identical to the fee-in-lieu-of procedure noted above; the only difference is that the capital investment advanced by the city in implementing a stormwater facility is not recovered through an availability charge. The capital charge is determined on a pro rata share of the capacity used by the new applicant or by the cumulative impact from the development upon all impacted facilities.
(3) The “fee-in-lieu-of” capital contribution for properties redeveloping within the Downtown Stormwater Improvement Watershed, and utilizing the installed stormwater treatment and/or conveyance facilities within that watershed, shall be levied as follows:
a. Capital cost per impervious square foot for Water Quality $2.05
b. Capital cost per impervious square foot for Water Quantity $0.18
c. Total Capital cost per impervious square foot for Water Quality and Quantity $2.23
This fee shall be paid prior to the issuance of a building permit for new construction and/or redevelopment in the Downtown Watershed.
