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Customers will be charged an application fee fora reduction e~ e~~;ien application. The <br />fee is intended to recover the utility's typical cost to review and verify the contents of an <br />application. <br />The City Engineer may approve, approve with conditions or reject the study's conclusions <br />about reduced or eliminated impacts to the public stormwater system. The findings of the <br />City Engineer can be appealed as described in section 6:3. In the event that the conclusions <br />are approved, the customer will receive a credit for any excessive impervious area-based <br />charges paid during all or part of the 12 months preceding the application. <br />Any reduction or exemption given shall continue until the property is further developed or <br />until the City engineer determines the. property no longer. qualifies for the reduction or <br />exemption given.. if the property is developed further, the customer must submit another <br />application for another reduction or exemption. The City engineer may waive the requirement <br />to reapply when the impact of development is less than the cost of processing the application <br />and enforcing this section. <br />6.2 Application Process For Reduction of ESUs <br />Upon implementation of the new fee structure, if a customer disagrees with the City's <br />calculation of ESUs, then the customer may. apply for a change in the number of ESUs by <br />showing that the amount of impervious surface or building foot print is different from that <br />determined by the City. The number of ESUs for general storm customers is based on <br />impervious surface data.. As discussed above, residential customers' ESUs are determined <br />by the customer class in which they fall. The customer class in which residential customers <br />fall is determined by their building foot print. <br />Customers who demonstrate. that no impervious area exists on their property will <br />~r-e~tei~~av~t_stt~i~ac ai:~~,, rem~~, cd 1i «in tli~ util~~ac Dui tt~~r t' t . ~c>l~e~ ty. <br />As in the process for customers who request areduction-er-e~~;~pten, customers with <br />impervious area applying for a change in ESUs must submit a site plan documenting the <br />actual building foot print .and/or impervious surface of the property. The customer is <br />responsible for covering the cost of obtaining such a plan. <br />If an applicant provides a previously prepared site plan that is approved by the City Engineer, <br />the impervious surface or bt~~lcling foot print indicated in that plan may be used to calculate <br />the number of ESUs. The study must meet the standards listed below and must reflect <br />current site conditions. <br />Except for properties with no impervious area, customers will be charged an application fee. <br />The fee is intended to recover the utility's typical cost to review and verify the contents of an <br />application. <br />stormwater Service Charge: Methodology Paper -Page 14 <br />Draft Revisions -April 10, 1995 <br />