HomeMy WebLinkAbout132 - 11/17/2020 - AMENDING CHAPTER 26 OF CITY CODE TO REVISE THE STORMWATER PLANT INVESTMENT FEES ORDINANCE NO. 132, 2020
OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF FORT COLLINS
AMENDING CHAPTER 26 OF THE CODE OF THE CITY OF FORT
COLLINS TO REVISE THE STORMWATER PLANT INVESTMENT FEES
WHEREAS, the City Council is empowered and directed by Article XII, Section 6 of the
Charter of the City of Fort Collins, to by ordinance from time to time fix, establish, maintain, and
provide for the collection of such rates, fees or charges for water and for other utility services
furnished by the City as will produce revenues sufficient to pay the costs, expenses, and other
obligations as set forth therein; and
WHEREAS, Article VII, Chapter 26 of the City Code establishes the stormwater utility as
a utility service furnished by and an enterprise of the City; and
WHEREAS, City Council has adopted stormwater basin and City-wide master plans
recommending stormwater facilities necessary to provide for proper drainage and control of flood
and surface waters within the City; and
WHEREAS, in 1998, City Council adopted ordinance No. 168, 1998, determining that all
lands within the City benefit by the installation of such stormwater facilities; and
WHEREAS, existing stormwater rate payers have paid for the design, right of way, and
construction of stormwater facilities identified in the drainage basin master plans that will benefit
and be utilized by new development; and
WHEREAS, City Council has determined that new development should pay its
proportionate share of the costs of capital stormwater facilities in existence at the time of
development in the form of a stormwater plant investment fee as established by City Code Section
26-512 ("Stormwater PIF"); and
WHEREAS,City Code Section 26-511 requires that the City Manager review the rates and
parameters for the Stormwater PIF annually and present them to City Council for approval no less
frequently than biennially; and
WHEREAS, the City Manager and City staff have also recommended to the City Council
adjustment of the Stormwater PIF as set forth herein; and
WHEREAS, the Water Board considered the proposed Stormwater PIF inflation-only-
based adjustments for at its meeting on September 17, 2020, and recommended approval of the
proposed adjustments; and
WHEREAS, based on the foregoing,City Council desires to amend Chapter 26 of the City
Code to adjust the scope and rate of the Stormwater PIF as set forth herein.
NOW,THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF FORT
COLLINS as follows:
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Section 1. That the City Council hereby makes any and all determinations and findings
contained in the recitals set forth above.
Section 2. That Section 26-512 of the Code of the City of Fort Collins is hereby
amended to read as follows:
Sec. 26-512. - Stormwater plant investment fees established.
(2) Plant investment fee base rate. The stormwater plant investment fee base rate is
hereby established as follows:
[Ae—rgr-oss acre of area $9,730
Section 3. That the modifications set forth above shall be effective for all fees paid on
or after January 1, 2021.
Introduced, considered favorably on first reading, and ordered published this 4th day of
November, A.D. 2020, and to be presented for final passage on the 17th day of November, A.D.
2020.
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Passed and adopted on final reading on the 17th day of November, A.D. 2020.
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