HomeMy WebLinkAbout3331 Amending Port Townsend Municipal Code Chapter 13.01 Procedures for Utility Development, Chapter 13.02 Low-Income, Low-Income Disabled, and Low-Income Senior Citizen Utility Rate Program and Establishing an Effective DateOrdinance 3331
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ORDINANCE NO. 3331
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF PORT TOWNSEND, WASHINGTON,
AMENDING PORT TOWNSEND MUNICIPAL CODE CHAPTER 13.01 PROCEDURES
FOR UTILITY DEVELOPMENT, CHAPTER 13.02 LOW-INCOME, LOW-INCOME
DISABLED, AND LOW-INCOME SENIOR CITIZEN UTILTY RATE PROGRAM AND
ESTABLISHING AN EFFECTIVE DATE
RECITALS:
The City Council of Port Townsend finds as follows:
1. The City of Port Townsend has low income, disabled, and low-income senior
utility rates that offer discounts to low income and disabled households; and
2. The program currently requires that accountholders apply each May for to
continue to receive the discount; and
The attached ordinance modifies the participation requirements for the low
income utility discount.
NOW, THEREFORE, the City Council of the City of Port Townsends hereby ordains as
follows:
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"�ctiog 1. Chapter 13.01 Procedures for Utility Development of the Port Townsend Municipal
Code is amended as indicated in Exhibit A.
ecti.on . Chapter 13.02 Low -Income, Low -Income Disabled, and Low -Income Senior Citizen
Utility Rate Program of the Port Townsend Municipal Code is amended as indicated in Exhibit
B.
° e tio1 ,. Severability. If any sentence, clause or phrase of this ordinance should be held to be
invalid or unconstitutional by a court of competent jurisdiction, such invalidity or
unconstitutionality shall not affect the validity or constitutionality of any other section, sentence,
clause or phrase or work of this ordinance.
Section 4. Effective Date. This ordinance shall take effect and be in force five days after the date
of its publication in the manner provided by law. Publication of this ordinance shall be by
summary thereof consisting of the title.
ADOPTED by the City Council of the City of Port Townsend, Washington, at a regular
meeting thereof, held this 20th day of February 2024.
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Exhibit A
13.01.020 Definitions.
A. General. The words used in this title shall have the meaning given in this section. This section
on definitions is supplemented by the engineering design standards manual, as now or later
amended, adopted by reference in PTMC 13.01.050. The definition of any word or phrase not
listed in the definitions which is in question when administering this title shall be defined from
one of the following sources. Said sources shall be utilized by finding the desired definition from
source number one, but if it is not available there, then source number two may be used and so
on. The sources are as follows:
1. Any city of Port Townsend resolution, ordinance, code, regulation or formally adopted
comprehensive plan, shoreline master plan or program or other formally adopted land use
plan;
2. Any statute or regulation of the state of Washington;
Legal definitions from Washington common law or a law dictionary;
4. The common dictionary.
B. Specific Definitions.
"Airgap" means a backflow prevention device that provides an unobstructed vertical distance of
at least twice the inside diameter of the supply line, but never less than one inch, through the free
atmosphere between a supply line outlet and the overflow rim of a receiving vessel.
"Average daily flow" means the total yearly flow divided by the days of operation.
"Back pressure" means the backflow of used, contaminated, or polluted water from a plumbing
fixture or vessel into a water supply pipe due to pressure created by booster pumps, boilers,
pressure vessels, or elevated plumbing that exceeds the main pressure or operating pressure of
the water supply pipe.
"Back -siphonage" means the backflow of used, contaminated, or polluted water from a plumbing
fixture or vessel into a water supply pipe due to a negative pressure in such pipe.
"Backflow" means the flow of water or other liquids, mixtures, or substances into the
distribution pipes of a potable supply of water from any source or sources other than its intended
source.
"Backflow prevention device" means a device, assembly, or means to prevent backflow into the
potable water system, either by back -siphonage or back pressure.
"Benefit area" means that area which includes parcels of real estate adjacent to, or likely to
require a service connection to, improvements made by a developer who has applied to the city
for a utility latecomer agreement pursuant to this chapter.
"Biochemical oxygen demand (BOD)" means the quantity of oxygen utilized in the biochemical
oxidation of organic matter under standard laboratory procedure in five days at 20 degrees
centigrade, expressed in milligrams per liter (mg/1).
"City block" means one city block, of approximately 260 feet or less.
"Clerk" means the clerk of the city of Port Townsend.
"CO-tL nant" means any person living in or upon the same premises as those occupied by the low-
income senior citizen.
"Commercial/multi family property" means and includes all property zoned or used for
multifamily, commercial, or retail uses.
"Commercial services" means water or sewer services to businesses engaged in the manufacture
and/or sale of a commodity or commodities or the rendering of a service, hotels, motels,
institutional establishments such as hospitals, nursing homes, places of worship and schools, and
mixed use centers (mixed commercial and residential units).
"Comprehensive drainage plan" means a detailed analysis for each drainage basin which
compares the capabilities and needs for runoff accommodations due to various combinations of
development, land use, structural and nonstructural management alternatives.
"Computations" means calculations, including coefficients and other pertinent data, made to
determine the drainage plan with rates of flow of water given in cubic feet per second and cubic
meters per second (ems).
"Cost of construction" means, for the purpose of Chapter . 3_.. 4. PTMC, those costs incurred for
permitting, design, engineering, surveying, inspection, acquisition of right-of-way and/or
easements, labor, materials and installation required in order to create an improvement which
complies with city standards. If the city engineer and the developer disagree about the "cost of
construction" in a particular situation, the determination of the public works director shall be
final.
"Council" means the city council of the city of Port Townsend.
"Cross -connection" means any connection between any part of the water system used or
intended to supply water for drinking purposes and any source or system containing water or
substance that is not or cannot be approved as safe, wholesome and potable for human
consumption.
"Customer" means all persons obtaining water service from the water supply system or sewer
service through the sewer system of the city of Port Townsend.
"Deleterious wastes" means wastes that are or may be corrosive or harmful to the wastewater
treatment facility, pump stations, sewer mains and/or facility effluent or biosolids, or which may
violate city, state or federal standards.
"Department" means the public works department of the city of Port Townsend.
"Design storm" means that rainfall event which is selected by the public works department for
purposes of design, specifying both the return period in years and the duration in hours.
"Detention facilities" means facilities designed to hold runoff while gradually releasing it at a
predetermined maximum rate.
"Developer" means any person, including their authorized representative, proposing to engage or
engaging in the development of a parcel.
"Developer reimbursement charge" means a fair pro rata share to be paid by an owner of
property within an area benefited by the private construction of municipal water, sewer, or storm
drainage improvements pursuant to this chapter, who did not contribute to the original cost of
such improvements. The term "developer reimbursement charge" may be used interchangeably
with the terms "utility latecomer charge" or "utility latecomer fee."
"Development" means:
1. Construction of a new dwelling unit, mixed use center, commercial or manufacturing
establishment, or other new structure on a vacant lot or parcel; or
2. A redevelopment or change in the intensity of the use of an existing structure that creates
an appreciable impact on existing infrastructure.
"Developmental coverage" means all impervious developed areas within the subject property
including, but not limited to, rooftops, driveways, carports, accessory buildings, parking areas,
and any other impervious areas which are permanent in nature (as opposed to temporary, such as
short-term alterations during construction). See also "Impervious area."
"Director" or "public works director" means the director for the city of Port Townsend public
works department or their designee, and shall include without limitation, the city engineer and
the city development review engineer.
"Drain" means any conductor of liquids.
"Drainage area" means the watershed contributing water runoff to and including the subject
property.
"Drainage plan" means a plan for collection, transport, treatment, and discharge or recycling of
water within the subject property.
"Drainage treatment/abatement facilities" means any facilities installed or constructed in
conjunction with a drainage plan for the purpose of treatment or abatement of urban runoff,
excluding retention or detention facilities.
"PCD" means the planning and community development department.
"Fireflow" means the rate of water flow needed to fight fires as defined by the city engineering
design standards manual.
"Force main" means a pressurized sewer main,
"Garbage" means solid waste from the preparation, cooking and dispensing of food and from the
handling, sale and storing of produce.
"High strength waste" means any wastewater which has a concentration higher than typical
domestic wastewater as further defined under Chapter 13.24 PTMC.
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