(A) Findings and purpose.
(1) Having adequate sewer capacity is essential to the health, well-being and quality of life of all of those who live and work within the city.
(2) The Community Facilities Chapter of the 2004 General Plan identifies a target sewer capacity of a peak factor of two times the average flow and half full capacity.
(3) Existing sewer capacity in the city is not sufficient to accommodate existing and future development within all areas of the city based on the target adopted in the 2004 General Plan.
(4) The City Council's purpose in enacting this section is to implement a sanitary sewer facility fee that will be imposed on new development throughout the city to ensure that such development is funding its share of the costs to upgrade the city's sewer system to handle the additional flow created by such development, with such systems to be sized to meet the General Plan standard.
(B) Sewer fee.
(1) A sanitary sewer system impact fee is hereby established to be imposed upon all new development in the city in an amount to be determined by resolution of the City Council. The amount of the fee shall not exceed the new development's fair share of the costs of the sanitary sewer improvements.
(2) The fees imposed by this section shall be deposited in a Sanitary Sewer System Facilities Fund and shall be used only to finance those sewer improvements, or portions thereof, that are identified by resolution of the City Council that are needed as a result of new development within the city.
(C) Credit. Any person otherwise required to pay a fee under this section shall receive a credit when that person constructs a portion of the sanitary sewer system that is to be funded by the fee.
(Ord. 533-C.S., passed 11-16-04)