CITY COUNCIL AGENDA PACKET REGULAR

Ordinance No. 2289 service for a period of time longer than that upon which the rates and minimum charges of the applicable rate schedule are based; neither does it bind the city to serve, except under reasonable conditions. Two or more parties who join in one application for service shall be jointly and severally liable for payment of bills and shall be billed by means of single periodic bills. C. Connections to the water system shall occur as follows: 1. For separate houses, including single-family homes, condominiums and townhouses, through a separate service connection to each dwelling unit. For condominiums and townhouses, the director is authorized to allow service using a master meter. 2. For multiunit residential structures, or mixed-use residential and commercial structures, on the same parcel, either: a. Through separate service connections to each dwelling unit, or b. Through a single connection with subsequent submetering to each dwelling unit; 3. For buildings or business quarters on the same parcel or on adjoining parcels under a single control or management by either of the following methods, as the director shall elect: a. Through separate service connections to each such building or business quarter, or b. Through a single service connection to supply all of such buildings and business quarters, and in which case one monthly minimum charge shall be applied for each such occupied building or business quarter, and the responsibility for payment of charges for all water furnished shall be assumed by the consumer having such control or management. Credit for such vacant units which are not metered separately but together with the occupied units shall be computed by deducting one monthly minimum charge for each vacant unit from the original total monthly bill for all of the units. D. In order to assist in monitoring sewage flows and water conservation, all applicants for service connections shall provide a separate meter and water system for irrigation purposes when an applicant's site qualifies under the City of Pleasanton's Landscape Ordinance thresholds for separate domestic and irrigation metering depending on the size of the irrigated areas, or as otherwise determined in the reasonable discretion of the director for submetered or separately metered sites, and may provide separate meter and water systems for other water consumptive uses which do not have the potential to generate flows to the sewerage system. Any such meter shall be installed in a manner and location satisfactory to the director. Upon request by the applicant, the director may waive, at his or her sole discretion, this requirement if he or she finds that the volume of irrigation water would be minimal and the cost of a separate meter and water system would be disproportionately uneconomical relative to sewer user charges to be saved. E. If, in the opinion of the city, it is doubtful if satisfactory water service can be given, due to location or elevation of the premises, then the city may require a written release from liability for any damage or inconvenience that may occur by reason of insufficient pressure or inadequate volume of water or intermittent supply. The release shall, without further notice from the city, remain in effect for all consumers taking water through the service, until Page 45 of 638