In adopting a water impact fee and adopting rules related thereto, the City Commission hereby makes and expresses the following findings, purposes, and intent:
(A) State and federal environmental protection agencies are continuing to apply stringent water quality standards to the city's water system.
(B) Continued growth within the city will significantly impact the water system requiring an expansion of the system in the near future.
(C) Recent and proposed changes in applicable federal legislation and federal and state regulations related to the Municipal Water Treatment Construction Grants Program contained in the Clean Water Act, as amended, indicate that the city cannot rely on the future availability of federal funds for water treatment construction facilities.
(D) Equity suggests that new users who create the demand for expanded facilities should be required to bear the capital, financing, and other costs of the expansion, extensions, and additions of the water system to the extent that their presence necessitates new facilities.
(E) The city finds it necessary to readopt that part of its rate system related to the recovery of costs in order to provide for funding for water systems for future customers.
(Ord. 188, passed 5-17-84; Am. Ord. 1518, passed 11-6-14)