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City staff propose updating Lakewood stormwater fee code, including 2025 rate alignment and six-year rate-study requirement
Summary
Assistant Public Works Director Angie Silva presented proposed amendments to Chapter 3.38 (surface water management fees) to align fees with 2025 utility rates, retain a 2.5% inflation adjustment for 2026+, require a rate study at least every six years, add flood-control mitigation uses, and remove now-obsolete nonprofit exemptions.
Angie Silva, assistant director of planning and public works, told the Lakewood City Council on Aug. 11 that the city’s stormwater fee code (chapter 3.38 LMC) had not been substantively updated since 2019 and that the draft ordinance in the meeting packet makes several targeted changes. Silva summarized four changes in the packet: update fees to reflect current 2025 surface-water utility rates; remove an outdated fee table that concluded in 2024 while retaining a 2.5% annual inflationary adjustment for 2026 and later years; add flood-control mitigation to the list of eligible uses consistent with state law; and require a…
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