7-1-9: RESPONSIBILITY FOR IMPROVEMENTS:
   (A)   Definitions: As used herein:
   EXISTING DEVELOPMENT: Those areas which have met the following conditions for a period of at least five (5) years:
      1.   Have been within the city limits;
      2.   Have had all public and private streets serving the development graded and open to the public;
      3.   Have had fifty one percent (51%) or more of the area within the development boundary occupied by buildings.
   NEW DEVELOPMENT: All areas within the jurisdiction of the city not defined as "existing development".
   (B)   Responsibility Of Landowners: Landowners in new development shall be obligated for all costs of engineering and construction of service facilities, and all such engineering and construction shall be in accordance with the terms and provisions of the subdivision title of the city, and as the same may be hereafter amended and supplemented.
   (C)   Responsibility Of City: The city shall bear the costs and responsibility of engineering in existing developments. The city and landowners shall be obligated for construction costs pertaining to streets, pavement of streets, installation of streetlights, fire hydrants, curbs and gutters, sidewalks, water lines, sewer and storm sewers and similar improvements in such proportions and amounts as may be established from time to time by resolution of the city establishing policies for such construction and development.
This section shall not apply to developments which are substantially in progress as of the effective date hereof. (Ord. 292, 10-27-1977)