818-02 Establish Water Facility Connection Fees

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• OR BK 5173 PG 989 5 klc 14 and/or being served by the City of Zephyrhills' Water System either directly or indirectly through the sale of wholesale water to a private franchise water system. Connection shall not include the transfer of water service from one occupant of a Principal Use to another occupant of the same Principal Use nor a change of use, unless the change in occupancy or use increases the demand on off-site Water System Facilities. (j) "City" shall mean the City of Zephyrhills, a geographical area and a political subdivision of the State of Florida. (k) "Council" shall mean the City Council of the City of Zephyrhills, Pasco County, Florida. (1) "Demand" shall mean the increment of Water Facilities that a Principal Use will consumed(measured in equivalent dwelling units or EDUs, as defined in this Ordinance), and the cost associated with providing the Water Facilities necessary to accommodate that increment. (m) "Department"shall mean the City of Zephyrhills Utility Service Department, or its legally designated representative. (n) "Dwelling Unit" shall mean a room or rooms connected together constituting a separate, independent housekeeping entity for owner occupancy or rental or lease on a daily, weekly, monthly, or longer basis and physically separated from any other rooms or dwellings units which may be at the same structure and containing sleeping and sanitary facilities and one (1)kitchen. The term "dwelling unit" as used in this Ordinance, shall be deemed to include mobile home dwellings. (o) "Equivalent Dwelling Unit or EDU"shall mean a measurement of water equal t o 250 gallons per day (gpd) design flow amount. One EDU represents the amount of capacity required in the design of the Water System to provide water service to a single family dwelling unit. The EDU value may be periodically adjusted to reflect changes in design flow amount for a single family dwelling unit. (p) "Governing Body"shall mean and refer to the City Council of the City of Zephyrhills, Florida. (q) "Industrial Uses"shall mean those activities which are predominantly engaged in the assembly, finishing,processing,packaging and/or storage of products in which include those uses specified in the ITE Trip Generation Manual under the Land Use Code, Section 100 and 200. (r) "Interlocal Agreements shall mean the agreements between the City of Zephyrhills and Pasco County, Florida, dated February 9, 1988, and amended, in which Pasco County agreed to allow the City of Zephyrhills to service Pasco County residents in the unincorporated areas surrounding the City of Zephyrhills, through the City's Water Facility Distribution System. (s) "ITE" shall refer to International Transportation Engineers and their manual as it now exists or may be amended from time to time. (t) "Mobile Home" shall mean a detached single-family dwelling unit with all of the following characteristics: (a) designed for long-term occupancy, and containing sleeping accommodation, a flush-toilet, a tub or shower bath, kitchen facilities, with plumbing and