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CITY OF HUGO WASHINGTON COUNTY, MINNESOTA ORDINANCE NO. 1999- 335 STORM WATER UTILITY ORDINANCE AN ORDINANCE ESTABLISHING CHAPTER 275 OF THE HUGO CITY CODE CREATING A STORM WATER UTILITY FEE SYSTEM. THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF HUGO, WASHINGTON COUNTY, MINNESOTA, DOES HEREBY ORDAIN AS FOLLOWS: 275.01 Statutory Authority. Minnesota Statutes Section 444.075 authorizes cities to impose just and reasonable charges for the use and availability of storm sewer facilities ("Charges"). By this section, the City elects to exercise such authority. 275.02 Findings and Determinations. In providing for such charges, the findings and determinations set out in this subsection are hereby made: A. In the exercise of its governmental authority, and in order to promote the public health, safety, convenience, and general welfare, the City has constructed, operated, and maintained a storm sewer system ("the system"). This section is adopted in the further exercise of such authority and for the same purposes. B. The system, as constructed, has, in the past, been financed and paid for through the imposition of special assessments and/or ad valorem taxes. Such financing methods were appropriate to the circumstances at the time they were used. It is now necessary and desirable to provide an alternative method of recovering some or all of the future costs of improving, maintaining, and operating the system through the imposition of charges as provided in this Ordinance. C. 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 one-year rainfall event.