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ORDINANCE #00-10 CITY OF RAMSEY ANOKA COUNTY STATE OF MINNESOTA AN AMENDMENT TO CHAPTER 4 OF THE CITY CODE WHICH CHAPTER IS KNOWN AS THE PUBLIC FACILITIES AND IMPROVEMENTS CHAPTER OF THE CITY CODE OF RAMSEY, MINNESOTA. AN ORDINANCE AMENDING SECTION 4.80 TO THE CITY CODE, WHICH SECTION 4.80 IS ENTITLED "STORM DRAINAGE UTILITY" AND WHICH SECTION WAS ADOPTED PURSUANT TO CITY ORDINANCE #00-01. The City of Ramsey ordains: SECTION 1. AMENDMENT Subsections 4.80.02 Subd. 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 assign 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 within 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 defined as the ratio of the average volume of surface water runoff coming 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 Unit ("REU"). For the purposes of this Section, one REU is defined as the product of the acreage of a particular parcel multiplied by the REF.