§ 8-632. Definitions.

In this article, these words and phrases have the following meanings:

County administrator. The individual appointed by the mayor/CEO of the unified government as the unified government county administrator or his/her designee.

County engineer. The individual appointed by the county administrator as the unified government county engineer or his/her designee.

Developer. Any person who owns a development or redevelopment site, or who authorizes, plans, undertakes, executes, or is otherwise directly responsible for development or redevelopment to occur on a given parcel.

Development or redevelopment. Any human activity that alters the elevation, cover or other hydrologic feature of the land. Such activities include but are not limited to the subdivision of land and the addition or alteration of improvements such as cuts and fills, drainage alterations, utilities, buildings, pavements, landscape, and any combination of these elements. Also the project, lot, parcel or tract or land where development or redevelopment occurs.

Development site. Any lot or parcel of land or a series of lots or parcels of land adjoining or contiguous or joined together under one ownership on which development or redevelopment of land occurs after the effective date of this article.

Director. The individual appointed by the county administrator as director of water pollution control or his/her designee.

Person. Any natural or corporate person, business association or business entity including, but not limited to, a corporation, a partnership, a sole proprietorship, a political subdivision, a public or private agency of any kind, a utility, an owners association, a successor or assign of any of the foregoing, or any combination thereof.

Pollution prevention plan means BMPs and other structural, procedural and operations and maintenance provisions designed and operated to reduce or eliminate the discharge of pollutants, particularly in stormwater runoff.

Stormwater. Surface flow resulting from any form of natural precipitation, also any discharge to the public storm sewer allowed under the unified government's NPDES stormwater discharge permit.

Stormwater treatment facility. Any constructed facility, or designated natural or restored open space, designed either to reduce the pollution load of stormwater, or to reduce the peak flow or volume of stormwater, or both.

Stormwater treatment facility owner. The person who controls, possesses, or takes stewardship of a stormwater treatment facility, which is planned and constructed in order to meet the requirements of this section.

(Ord. No. O-25-10, § 1, 5-6-2010; Ord. No. O-27-14, § 2, 4-10-2014)