(A) Council accepts the recommendation of the staff to re-establish environmental impact fees to be assessed against teardown and in-fill residential development. To accomplish this purpose, the city is hereby divided into four residential stormwater impact districts as depicted in Schedule A, attached to Ordinance No. 2-2015, and respectively identified as Residential Impact Area I, II, III and IV.
(B) In addition to any other building permit or zoning fees which may be assessed in conjunction with the reconstruction of residential teardown and in-fill development, there shall be assessed a fee of $1,500 per building site, applicable to residential in-fill or teardown construction, payable at the time of the application for permit, which fee shall be an environmental impact fee collected by the city to be able to fund the reconstruction and repair of stormwater infrastructure within the specific Residential Impact Area in which such construction occurs. The fee as collected shall be deposited to a separate fund matched to the environmental impact area within which such construction occurs. The Council annually shall appropriate from other municipal revenue sources a sum not less than an amount equal to the impact fees collected under this division (B) during the preceding calendar year. Such sum shall be irrevocably appropriated to the Environmental Impact Area Fund for the impact area from which such fees were collected. Thereafter, the funds may be used for stormwater infrastructure improvements, including reconstruction or repair of stormwater systems and/or green solutions consistent with stormwater management best practices, which improvements may only be funded and constructed within the impact area from which such funds were collected. Any unexpended funds in any tax year shall be carried forward to the next year, but shall not diminish nor relieve the requirement of an appropriation to be made pursuant to this section for any ensuing or subsequent tax year.
(C) There are hereby established four separate funds to be known as Impact Area I Fund, Impact Area II Fund, Impact Area III Fund, and Impact Area IV Fund into which such collected funds shall be segregated and from which such funds shall be appropriated consistent with division (B) of this section.
(D) Nothing contained in this section shall relieve any person, firm or corporation from complying with all other ordinances, laws, rules, regulations or fee requirements of the city, or of any other governmental agency which now or hereafter regulate or govern the issuance of permits for the construction of structures within the city. Further, nothing contained in this section shall prohibit City Council from establishing appropriate fees and charges for any review to be undertaken in conjunction with the issuance of building permits or in conjunction with other applications and municipal procedures.
(Ord. 24-1979, passed 7-11-79; Am, Res. 39-1981, passed 11-18-81; Am. Ord. 23-1982, passed 10-6-82; Am. Ord. 25-1992, passed 11-4-92; Am. Ord. 2-2015, passed 1-7-15)