The council finds that the concentration of nitrates which presently exist in the groundwaters underlying the city is a significant threat to the public health and welfare; that a reduction in the concentration of nitrates in the groundwaters underlying the city would occur if the owners of property within the city's sewer service area using or proposing to use private sewage disposal systems were encouraged to connect such properties and the buildings and structures located thereon to the city's sewer system; and that the connection of property within the city's sewer service area to the city's sewer system can best be encouraged if the city provides to the owners thereof a means of financing the water pollution control plant capacity fees, trunkline capacity fees, and sewer main installation fees which become due and payable upon connection of such property to the city's sewer system, and also provides a means of financing the cost of the sewer laterals which must be constructed and installed in order to connect such property to the city's sewer system. The council also finds that the water pollution control plant capacity fees, trunkline capacity fees, and sewer main installation fees provided for by Title 15 of this code are used exclusively for the payment of costs of local improvements to land to accomplish and facilitate connections to the city's sewer system and that such connections directly and specially benefit the land so connected to the extent of such fees, as the council may set them from time to time.
(Ord. 1586 §11 (part))