A. The city must expand its water and sewer facilities if new development is to be accommodated without decreasing current standards of public health.
B. The imposition of connection fees is one of the preferred methods of ensuring that development bears a proportionate share of the cost of water and sewer facilities necessary to accommodate such development. This must be done in order to promote and protect the public health, safety and welfare.
C. Connecting to the city water and/or sewer system will create a need for the construction, equipping or expansion of water and sewer facilities.
D. The fees established by this chapter do not exceed the costs of providing additional water and sewer facilities necessitated by the connection to the city's water and sewer systems.
E. The sewer connection fee analysis and water connection fee analysis prepared by JUB Engineers, dated May 21, 2002, set forth a reasonable methodology for the determination of the need of and costs related to participation in the water and sewer facilities of the city. (Ord. 378, 8-6-2002)