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ORDINANCE #00-10 CITY OF RA3'ISEY AIN 0 IC~ COUNTY STATE OF ~LINNESOTA AN .~IENDMENT TO CHAPTER 4 OF THE CITY CODE WHICH CHAPTER IS I~NOWN AS THE PUBLIC FACILITIES AND IMPROVEMENTS CHA~PTER OF THE CITY CODE OF 1L.~2VISEY, MINNESOTA. AN ORDINANCE AMENDING SECTION 4.80 TO THE CITY CODE, WHICH SECTION 4.80 IS ENTITLED "STORM DRAINAGE UTILITY" A~ND WHICH SECTION WAS ADOPTED PURSUANT TO CITY ORDINANCE #00-01. The City of Ramsey ordains: SECTION 1. AMENDMENT Subsections 4.80.02 Sub& 3, 4.80.03, 4.80.04 and 4.80.05 are amended to provide as follows: 4.80.02 Findings and Determinations. In providing for such charges, the findings and determination set out in this Subsection are made. Subd. 3. In imposing charges, it is necessary to establish a methodology that undertakes to make them just and equitable. Taking into account the status of completion of the system, past methods of recovering system costs, the topography of the city and other relevant factors, it is determined that it would be just and equitable to assig-n responsibility for some or all of the future costs of operating, maintaining and improving the system on the basis of the expected storm water runoff from the various parcels of land with/n the City during a standard five-year rainfall event. 4.80.03. Rates and Charges Subdivision 1. Residential Equivalent Factor. Rates and charge for the use and availability of the system shall be determined through the use of a Residential Equivalent Factor ("REF"). For the purposes of this Section, one REF is de£med as the ratio of the average volume of surface water runoff cormng from one acre of land and subjected to a particular use, to the average volume of runoff coming from one acre of land subjected to typical single-family residential use within the City during a standard five-year rainfall event. Subd 2. Residential Equivalent Unit. Rates and charges for the use and availability of the system shall be determined through the use of a Residential Equivalent Unfit ("REU"). For the purposes of this Section, one 1LEU is defined as the product of the acreage of a particular parcel multiplied by the R_EF. I I I I I I -128- !