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Stormwater Utility Fund - For the purpose of renaming the Stormwater Utility Fund, which shall be known henceforth as the Watershed Restoration Fund, to more accurately reflect the functionality of the Fund.
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CITY COUNCIL OF THE
City of Annapolis
Ordinance 33-17
Introduced by: Aldermen Littmann and Pfeiffer,
Alderwomen Finlayson and Pindell Charles and Alderman Arnett
Referred to
Economic Matters Committee
Environmental Matters Committee
AN ORDINANCE concerning
Stormwater Utility Fund
FOR the purpose of renaming the Stormwater Utility Fund, which shall be known henceforth as the Watershed Restoration Fund, to more accurately reflect the functionality of the Fund.
BY repealing and re-enacting with amendments the following portions of the Code of the City of Annapolis, 2016 Edition
17.10.180
SECTION I: BE IT ESTABLISHED AND ORDAINED BY THE ANNAPOLIS CITY COUNCIL that the Code of the City of Annapolis shall be amended to read as follows:
TITLE 17 - BUILDINGS AND CONSTRUCTION
Chapter 17.10 - STORMWATER MANAGEMENT
Section 17.10.180 - Stormwater utility WATERSHED RESTORATION fund.
A. A stormwater utilityWATERSHED RESTORATION fund shall be established and the moneys therein shall be used by the City for land acquisition (including easements and rights-of-way), and the study, engineering, design, purchase, construction, expansion, repair, maintenance, landscaping and inspection of public stormwater management systems.
B. The stormwater utilityWATERSHED RESTORATION fee schedule applicable to the fund shall be established by resolution of the City Council. The feeS schedule shall reflect an annual two percent rate increase in effect from July 1, 2015 until June 30, 2018 for stormwater fees under this Section. To encourage environmentally sound and effective stormwater management practices, the Director of the Department of Public Works may authorize a reduction in the stormwater utilityWATERSHED RESTORATION fee not to exceed fifty percent in accordance with a duly established policy setting forth which stormwater management facilities shall qualify for a reduction of the stormwater utilityWATERSHED RESTORATION fee and how such reductions shall be calculated.
C. In the case of an application for a waiver to on-site water quantity and/or water quality management under this chapter, the Director of Public Works may in his/her discretion accept the conveyance of an interest in land, the construction of a stormwater management facility, the scheduled fee or any equivalent combination thereof as the stormwater utilityWATERSHED RESTORATION fee.
D. The Director of Public Works shall not accept a conveyance of land or the construction of a stormwater management facility pursuant to the preceding Subsection that does not cover adequately the cost to the City of managing the stormwater generated from the subject property or if such acceptance is otherwise not in the interest of the City.
E. Public Works is responsible for maintenance, repair and retrofit of stormwater facilities that lie in the public right-of-way and these funds shall be used to this effect.
SECTION II: AND BE IT FURTHER ESTABLISHED AND ORDAINED BY THE ANNAPOLIS CITY COUNCIL that this ordinance shall take effect from the date of its passage.
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