09-12-16 Council Packet and Agenda

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Bill No. 48 -16 ORDINANCE NO. AN ORDINANCE OF THE COMMON COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SOUTH BEND, INDIANA REPEALING CERTAIN SECTIONS OF CHAPTER 17, ARTICLE 10 REGARDING COMPACT FEES AND ASSESSMENTS AND REPLACING SUCH FEES AND ASSESSMENTS WITH SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT CHARGES STATEMENT OF PURPOSE AND INTENT The City of South-Bend owns and operates a water and sewer utility. The South Bend City Code has contained, for many years provisions, which would impose compact fees and assessments for water and/or sewer utility service. The application of said compact fees and assessments has been inconsistent. This Council has caused to be prepared a study which recommends system development charges to be imposed upon connection of new customers to its water or sewer utility and to new uses by existing customers that would materially change the demands on the water and/or sewer utility. The City has determined that in place of compact fees for sewer service, the City should instead, recover an outside City surcharge for sewer service. Further, the City has determined that it is appropriate to implement system development charges for both water and sewer service which have been computed using what is known as the "Equity Method." It is appropriate to exempt connections to new structures which replace an older structure of similar use located on the same property. Section I. Chapter 17, Article 10, Section 17 -79 of the South Bend Municipal Code shall be repealed in its entirety and amended to read as follows: 17 -79. Equivalent residential unit; sewer system development charge for new connections and for certain existing connections. 1. For purposes of this section "ERU' shall be defined as an equivalent residential unit which means a single family residence. For purposes of customers that are not single family residences one ERU shall equal estimated wastewater flows of 310 gallons per day. No customer will be less than one ERU. 2. Except as provided in Subsections 5 and 6 of this Section, for every new connection to the South Bend Municipal Sewer Works, a system development charge of $1,145 shall be collected per ERU and additional portion thereof to be connected. All charges shall be paid to the City at the time the application for connection is filed.