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For the purposes of this chapter, the following terms phrases and words shall mean:

“City” means City of Moab, a municipal corporation of the state of Utah.

“Council” means Moab City Council.

“County” means Grand County.

“Customer” or “person” means any individual; public or private corporation and its officers; partnership; association; firm; trustee; executor of an estate; the state or its departments, institutions, bureaus, agencies; county; city; political subdivision; or any other governmental or legal entity recognized by law.

“Developed parcel” means any parcel whose surface has been altered by grading, filling, or construction of any improvement.

“Director” means the director of the City of Moab public works department or the director’s designee.

“Equivalent residential unit (ERU)” an ERU is equal to three thousand square feet of impervious surface area. This is based on an average single-household residential parcel, which has an impervious surface area of three thousand square feet.

“Impervious surface” means any hard surfaced area of a parcel that prevents the absorption of stormwater into the underlying soil. The following surfaces shall be considered impervious: areas occupied by roofed structures, areas surfaced with concrete, areas surfaced with asphalt pavement, and any other surface type that exhibits similar runoff characteristics.

“Mitigation” means on-site facilities or practices which reduce stormwater quantity or improve stormwater quality.

“National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) Stormwater Regulations” are the provisions of the Federal Clean Water Act establishing specific permit requirements for the control of stormwater discharge.

“Parcel” means the smallest, separately segregated unit of land having an owner. A parcel has boundaries and surface area, and is documented with a parcel identification number by Grand County.

“Semi-impervious surface” means any surface area of a parcel that retards the absorption of stormwater into the underlying soil, or that causes stormwater to run off in greater quantities that it would from a natural surface in the same location. The following surfaces shall be considered semi-impervious when determined in accordance with Section 13.07.070(D): areas surfaced with road base, gravel, or similar aggregate mixture; natural dirt surfaces that are compacted to such a degree that they do not support vegetative cover on more than twenty percent of the surface area.

“Single-household residential parcel” means any parcel of land containing a single-household or two-household dwelling unit provided that in the case of a two-household unit, the ownership is undivided.

“Stormwater” means water produced by storms, surface drainage, snow and ice melt, and other water handled by the stormwater system.

“Stormwater facilities” means any facility, improvement, development or property made for controlling stormwater quantity and quality.

“Stormwater management utility” or “utility” means the utility created by this chapter which operates, maintains, regulates and improves stormwater facilities and programs within the City of Moab.

“Stormwater system” means all manmade stormwater facilities and conveyances, and natural stormwater systems including stream channels, drainage courses or similar that are owned or maintained by the City and that store, control, treat, and/or convey stormwater.

“Undeveloped parcel” means any parcel that has not been altered by grading, filling, or construction. (Ord. 19-13 § 21 (part), 2019; Ord. 08-18 (part), 2008)