The village has constructed a southern line sewer to enable the village to take out of service its sewage treatment plant, and to divert the sewage flow previously treated by the plant to the Fox Lake regional treatment plant through the southern line sewer, and then through the Lake County interceptor situated on Route 59.
Lake Villa previously entered into a certain agreement on April 9, 1991, with the county to permit the discharge of sewage from the southern line sewer to the Lake County interceptor sewer for transmission to the Fox Lake regional plant facility. This agreement requires the payment of the Lake County connection fee as enumerated in section 51.23 of the Lake County code of ordinances or such other sum as may be lawfully determined from time to time by the county per residential customer equivalent.
Accordingly, a supplementary connection fee shall be paid for every dwelling, business, industry, and institution connecting to the village system and discharging directly or indirectly into the county's collector system in an amount determined by the Lake County connection fee schedule as enumerated in section 51.23 of the Lake County code of ordinances or such other sum as may be lawfully determined from time to time by the county per residential customer equivalent. In determining multi-family housing connection fees, the following schedule shall be used per dwelling unit:
3 or more bedrooms | 100 percent residential customer equivalent |
2 bedrooms | 80 percent residential customer equivalent |
1 bedroom | 75 percent residential customer equivalent |
These fees shall be paid prior to the issuance of a building permit. This supplementary connection fee is in addition to any other connection fees or any other fees charged by the village for connection for sewer service. (Ord. 2017-02-01, 2-8-2017)