That's "smart" thinking and of course all great "smart" minds think alike. I was wondering exactly the same thing. But from what I can gather it seems that this is a flat tax err... hidden property tax assessment a fixed "runoff fee" that is levied regardless of one's "impervious surface" infractions.
Because it's not really about the "runoff" per se but about the fact that rain lands on your property, and it's go to go somewhere, right?
So even if you covered your property with PVC and collected all rainwater, then boiled it so that it all went back into the atmosphere as steam.....
Well.... it would still come down as rainfall on some impervious surface somewhere and still become runoff.
That's what we call "smart taxation for smart bureaucrats."
“...even if you covered your property with PVC and collected all rainwater, then boiled it so that it all went back into the atmosphere as steam.....”
lmbo