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t :e t MEMORANDUM DATE: October 3, 1991 TO: Thomas D. Burt, City Manager FROM: Roger Larson, Finance Director ITEM: CLARIFICATION OF SEWER RATES AND CHARGES The Finance Department is seeking clarification of Ordinance 540:00 Sewer Rates and Charges. Subdivision 2 reads; "All residential -premises shall be charged quarterly based - upon the number of cubic feet of water used during the months of January, February and March of each year, as determined from meter readings". Subdivision 3 reads; "All premises except residential premises, and except commercial greenhouses or nurseries operated in accordance with City ordinances, which are connected to the municipal sanitary sewer system shall be charged quarterly based upon the number of cubic feet used during that quarter". The clarification I am seeking is what constitutes residential premises versus non-residential . premises. Specifically, I need direction regards Multiple Family Residence (Apartment Buildings) as to their classification under current City Ordinance. One could easily read this language and classify multiple family residence as residential based on the thinking that single family households make up an apartment building. However, one could also interpret the word residential premises refers to one or two family dwellings with individual meters. Multiple Family Residence's or Apartment Buildings are business' which are ran for profit and most contain a single meter for the entire building. Under the current Zoning Ordinance, Section 3, Subdivision 1, residential districts include: 1) R-1 Single Family Residence 2) R-2 Two Family Residence 3) R-3 Townhouse Residence 4) R-4 Multiple Family Residence This language is clear in that it states a Multiple Family Residence is in a residential district, but, Ordinance 540:00 fails to make the same clarification for ease of interpretation. Recommendation: .Council direct staff as to their interpretation of the current ordinance and further direct staff if a change is necessary to amend Ordinance 540:00 Sewer and Rate Charges.