A. Unless otherwise provided in this chapter, each lot or parcel shall have a separate water service connection, except for fire service connections serving more than one lot or parcel that are authorized pursuant to the provisions of this chapter. All water service lines shall be equipped with an approved corporation stop/valve at the distribution main, and with a curb stop valve unless not required under specifications adopted by the department. Water service lines shall not cross another lot or parcel without first obtaining any and all rights-of-way, easements, or other approvals necessary to do so.
B. To be eligible for water service, a parcel must abut a public easement or a city street or alley right-of-way in which a distribution main is located at a point immediately adjacent to the property, unless the director authorizes the extension of a distribution main.
1. If the parcel abuts both a public easement and a street or alley right-of-way in which distribution mains are located, the director shall specify which distribution main will be used for any new water service connection.
2. If the parcel abuts only a public easement in which a distribution main is located, and the distribution main is scheduled in the department's capital improvement program to be abandoned when a new distribution main is constructed in a street or alley right-of-way adjacent to the parcel, the director may require, as a condition of allowing a new water service connection to the existing distribution main, that the parcel's private water lines be configured to allow the parcel to be connected to the new distribution main after it is constructed.
C. The director may authorize water service for land locked parcels provided that the customer obtains recorded private easements from the affected owner(s) and all other applicable legal requirements are fulfilled. Private easements must abut a distribution main in a dedicated public easement or city right-of-way. Water service lines constructed in private easements are private water lines, and the city shall have no responsibility for the maintenance and repair of such lines.
D. The director may authorize water service for a parcel that is not adjacent to a distribution main and is not land locked, on such terms and conditions as may be specified by the director, if the director determines based on written findings that it is not feasible to extend a distribution main due to the unique physical characteristics of the parcel which are so unusual that complying with the requirements of this section would create an exceptional hardship to the parcel owner or the surrounding parcel owners.
E. Except as provided herein, the director shall determine the maximum sizes of service connections. For single-family domestic service connections, the maximum size shall be one inch, or one and one-half inches if residential fire sprinkler systems are present, unless otherwise authorized by the director.
F. All water service connections are subject to the city's tap, meter, development, abandonment, and other applicable fees established by city council resolution, and to the department's cross-connection control standards. (Ord. 2015-0011 § 1; Ord. 2013-0014 § 2; Ord. 2011-031 § 1; Ord. 2001-033 § 1)