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hold a hearing on any change proposed by the City Manager. The Council may approve, modify or disallow a proposed fee or fee modification which it reviews. The ordinance provides for customers or the City Manager to initiate an adjustment to a customer' s fee and sets out criteria for determining when an adjustment is appropriate. Methods for billing and collection of the fee are established, with the fee billed on a monthly basis. All customers would receive annual notification of the T SMF rates and the proposed uses of revenues derived from the fee. A standard provision is included to allow the City Manager to adopt rules and methodologies to carry out the provisions of the ordinance. Rate Methodology, Customer Categories, and Example Fees The draft ordinance provides a general rate methodology and potential adjustment factors for the rates. The rate methodology establishes estimated trip generation as the primary measure of a customer's use of the transportation system. Measurement of trip generation is primarily based of the Institute of Transportation Engineers (ITE) Trip Generation manual with adjTustments to estimated usage of the system allowed to recognize additional data related to trip generation or other factors influencing estimated system usage. The ordinance requires a minimum set of customer categories to provide a distinction between levels of estimated use oftl~e transportation system by groups of system users with similar trip generation characteristics. Six residential and four non-residential customer property use categories are specified. Residential categories are distinguished by type of residential units reflecting differing trip generating characteristics. Non-residential categories include uses which are grouped within ranges of trip generation rates, with the amount of charges for customers within a category varying with the size of the development. Resulting rates will be assigned and adjustments applied to customer categories through the administrative ratemaking process. Table A below provides a listing of the ordinance-specified customer categories and the projected rate per unit of size for each category, assuming adoption of a five-cent per gallon motor veh~rcle fuel tax and projections of the total number of vehicle trips to be charged. The following Table B provides examples of fees for individual customers which are estimated based on the draft ordinance and proposals before Council at this time. Future final rates will depend both on revenue requirements established through the budget adoption process and refinements of the actual number, type and size of customers charged. Staff has prepared example estimated fees using a rate model based on the best currently-available data. Rates provided at this time differ from those provided to Council in previous deliberations (July 2002) due to several factors, including use of more specific data on number, type and size of customers to be charged within various residential and nonresidential customer categories, modified assumptions of revenue requirements, and refinement of pass-by and diverted-linked trip adjustments. Page 2