(A) In the event the City Council determines the necessity of constructing a major sanitary sewer facility, and determines that the utilization of a connection fee is the most equitable manner in which to recover the city’s costs associated therewith, the City Council shall cause a “notice of public hearing on the proposed adoption of an ordinance to establish a benefitted district and a connection fee” to be published in a newspaper of general circulation within the city as hereafter provided.
(B) In addition to indicating the date, time and place of the public hearing, the notice shall:
(1) Indicate the nature and extent of the major sanitary sewer facility or facilities under consideration for construction, as well as the estimated cost or costs for the design and construction of same;
(2) Identify by general description the proposed benefitted district to be served by the major sanitary sewer facility or facilities; and
(3) Set forth the proposed schedule of connection fees to be paid by property owners within the benefitted district who connect to said facilities, expressed in dollars per single-family equivalent for each type of use of land area served.
(C) The notice shall also state that the proposed connection fee ordinance is on file, along with a plat of the area to be served, and both are available for public inspection in the office of the City Clerk. Notice and public hearing shall be pursuant to the method set forth in the first sentence of Iowa Code § 384.38(3) (1999), referring to Iowa Code § 362.3. As a courtesy, a copy of the information contained in the notice shall be mailed by regular mail to each property owner within the benefitted district as shown by the records of the County Auditor.
(2011 Code, § 24.1000.2)