HomeMy WebLinkAbout119 - 11/03/2009 - AMENDING CHAPTER 26 OF THE CITY CODE TO REVISE STORM WATER PLANT INVESTMENT FEES ORDINANCE NO. 119, 2009
OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF FORT COLLINS
AMENDING CHAPTER 26 OF
THE CODE OF THE CITY OF FORT COLLINS
TO REVISE STORMWATER PLANT INVESTMENT FEES
WHEREAS, Article XII Municipal Public Utilities, Section 6 Municipal Utility Rates and
Finances, requires all net operating revenues of the City's utilities to be held within the respective
utility's fund; and
WHEREAS, the City Council is empowered and directed by Article XII, Section 6, of the
City Charter to fix, establish, maintain and provide for the collection of such rates, fees or charges
for utility services furnished by the City as will produce revenues sufficient to pay the costs,
expenses and other obligations of the storm water utility, as set forth therein; and
WHEREAS, Section 26-511(a) of the City Code requires that the City Manager review the
rates and parameters of the Stormwater Plant Investment Fees annually and present them to City
Council for approval no less frequently than biennially; and
WHEREAS, on November 20, 2007, the City Council adopted Ordinance No. 124, 2007,
which established the stormwater plant investment fees now in effect; and
WHEREAS, the City Council has adopted stormwater basin master plans recommending
stormwater facilities that are necessary to provide for the proper drainage and control of flood and
surface waters within the City; and
WHEREAS, the City Council adopted Ordinance No. 168, 1998 determining that all
developed 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, the City Council has determined that new development should pay its
proportionate share of the costs of the stormwater infrastructure as it exists at the time of
development; and
WHEREAS, the City Manager and City staff have recommended to the City Council the
following adjustments to the Stormwater Plant Investment Fees to be effective January 1,2010;and
WHEREAS, based on the foregoing, it is the desire of the City Council to amend Chapter
26 of the City Code to revise stormwater plant investment fees.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF FORT
COLLINS as follows:
Section 1. That Section 26-512(2) 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 investmentfee base rate.The stormwater plant investment fee base rate
is six thousand three hundred thirteen dollars($6,313)per gross acre of area.
Section 2. That the amendments to Chapter 26 of the City Code contained herein shall
go into effect January 1, 2010.
Introduced, considered favorably on first reading, and ordered published this 20th day of
October, A.D. 2009, and to be presented for final passage on the ay of November, A.D. 2009.
Mayo
`ATTEST:
City Clerk
Passed and adopted on final reading on the 3rd day of November, A.D. 2009.
Mayor
ATTEST:
VkA
City-Clerk