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Clerk 11/02/2011
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AN ORDINANCE regarding surface water management; revising surface water management rate adjustment program and timing of its implementation; and amending Ordinance 16958, Section 7.
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STATEMENT OF FACTS:
1. To provide surface water management facilities and programs, King County charges property owners within its surface water management service area, which is unincorporated King County, fees based on impervious surface area, including graduated nonresidential fees and one uniform rate for all residential parcels.
2. King County grants requests for rate adjustments based on demonstration that one or more of the conditions in K.C.C. 9.08.080 are met.
3. On November 15, 2010, the council adopted Ordinance 16958, which revised the surface water management service charge and rate adjustment program for nonresidential parcels pending the development of a program that more comprehensively takes into account the effectiveness of on-site management of storm and surface water runoff.
4. The following guiding principles are a reasonable and legitimate basis for future amendments to the rate adjustment program:
a. The rate adjustment program will be, to the extent possible, linked to the effectiveness of facility or on-site practices that reduce storm water impacts; that is, the more effective the facility or practices are at reducing storm water impacts the greater the discount.
b. The rate adjustment program is, and will be, administratively feasible.
c. The rate adjustment program will provide property owner incentive to improve on-site control of stormwater, such as via retrofitting existing facility, improved operations and maintenance and similar approaches.
d. The rate adjustment program is, and will be, consistent, meaning not in conflict, with other King County Code requirements.
e. Any amendments to the rate adjustment program will be available to all nonresidential properties once adopted.
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