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• • Storm Sewer Utility Rule Vadnais Lake Area Water Management Organization ( VLAWMO) I. Storm Sewer Utility Established. Storm Sewer Utility (SSU) shall be operated as a public utility pursuant to Minn. Stat. § 444.075. This Rule is established by the VLAWMO Board of Directors as authorized by the VLAWMO Joint Powers Agreement, Section VI, Responsibilities and Duties of the Board of Directors, Subdivision 1 and Subdivision 24. II. Definitions. The following words, terms and phrases, when used in this chapter, shall have the meaning ascribed to them in this section, except where the context clearly indicates a different meaning: (1) The Vadnais Lake Area Water Management Budget is the annual budget approved by the Board of Directors for surface water management including planning, engineering, monitoring, capital expenditures, personnel and equipment and operation of the surface water utility, in accordance with established VLAWMO policy. (2) Storm Sewer Utility Fee is an annual charge developed for each parcel on nonexempt property in the watershed for the management of surface water. (3) Rate for Land use is the ratio of runoff volume, in inches, for a particular land use, to the runoff volume, in inches for a residential household, assuming a 2" rainfall and Soil Conservation Service (SCS) "Type B" soil conditions. III. Storm Sewer Utility Fee. Effective November 1, 2007, the utility factors for various land uses are as follows: Classification Land Use Residential Equivalency Factor 1 Residential Single Family 1.00 2 Residential Multi- Family (4 or more units) 2.72 3 Commercial 4.23 4 Industrial 3.30 5 Institutional: schools, hospitals, Government, churches 3.30 6 Golf Courses 0.74 7 Agricultural 0.25 8 Vacant, Parks, Cemeteries exempt 9 Road and Railroad Right -of -Way exempt 10 Wetland / Public Waters exempt The Storm Sewer Utility Fee shall be determined by using the Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) runoff equation to determine relative amounts of runoff for the differing land use types. Single family land use is the basis of this calculation. The ratio of runoff generated from other land use types to runoff generated by the single - family parcel is shown as the Residential Equivalency Factor (REF). The REF is then multiplied by the rate per acre for the single - family land use to calculate the rate for each of the other land uses. The average single - family lot size within the VLAWMO was determined to be 0.69 acres, calculated by dividing 8114 parcels into 5604 total acres of low density residential land use. The Storm Sewer Utility Fee for all individual parcels shall be defined as the product of: Storm Sewer Utility Rule 1 of 2 10/24/07