(A) It has been, and continues to be, the policy of the village that land developers within the village or within a mile and one-half of the corporate limits are required to extend water, storm sewer and sanitary sewer mains to their developments at their own expense.
(B) In certain situations in which the corporate authorities deem it to be necessary or desirable to protect the public health, safety and welfare by ensuring that adequate public facilities exist to serve new developments and to promote orderly development, the village may elect, in its sole discretion, to extend water, storm sewer or sanitary sewer mains at the village’s expense to desirable areas and to recoup its expense by charging a connection fee to the owners/developers of the property benefitted by said main extensions.
(C) In the event the village elects to extend mains at its own expense, it shall be done so by ordinance and each such ordinance shall contain, at a minimum, the following:
(1) An estimate of the cost to the village to extend the main or mains;
(2) A designation of the area which the village reasonably believes will be benefitted by the main extension; and
(3) A formula or fee schedule setting forth the way in which the connection fee will be determined.
(D) Nothing herein shall be construed to prohibit or limit the village from collecting the fees provided for elsewhere in this code of ordinances in addition to the connection fee proposed herein.
(E) The following areas have been designated by separate ordinances as areas in which the village will, or has, paid for the construction of public water, public sanitary sewer or public storm sewer main extensions and for which reimbursement will be collected from developers or property owners, by the village, upon connection to the main.
(Ord. 16-102, passed 4-4-2016)