(A) Nonresidential water customers shall further reduce their water usage to 50% of use levels during the previous 12-month average as calculated by the city from the past 12 months' water bills.
(B) It is the primary responsibility of each nonresidential water customer to meet its mandated water use reduction goal in whatever manner possible.
(C) The city will establish a water allotment for each nonresidential water customer, based upon a required further reduction of water usage from the rate of water used by the customer during the past 12 months, or the last recorded use level up to 12 months if no meter readings were recorded on the customer for the full prior 12- month period.
(D) (1) If the mandated further reduction in water usage cannot be obtained without imposing extraordinary hardship which threatens health and safety, the nonresidential customer may apply to the city for a variance, for these purposes extraordinary hardship means a permanent damage to property or economic loss which is substantially more severe than the sacrifices borne by other water users subject to this subchapter. If the further reduction would cause an extraordinary hardship or threaten health or safety, a variance may be granted and a revised water use reduction requirement for the particular customer may be established.
(2) Any person aggrieved by a decision relating to such a variance rendered by the city rendering water service beyond its corporate limits may file a complaint with the City Council in accordance with the city's normal administrative procedures.
(E) The city will provide each nonresidential customer suggested means to reduce usage levels. (See § 52.03)
