HomeMy WebLinkAbout144 - 11/01/2011 - AMENDING CHAPTER 26 OF THE CITY CODE TO REVISE STORMWATER PLANT INVESTMENT FEES ORDINANCE NO. 144, 2011
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, the City Council is empowered and directed by Article XII, Section 6, of the
City Charter to by ordinance from time to time 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 3, 2009, the City Council adopted Ordinance No. 119, 2009,
which established the Stormwater Plant Investment Fees now in effect;and
WHEREAS, the 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, 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 has recommended to the City Council the revised Stormwater
Plant Investment Fees set forth herein, to be effective January 1, 2012; and
WHEREAS, the Water Board considered the proposed Stormwater Plant Investment Fees
for 2012 at its September 15, 2011, meeting and recommended the approval of the proposed fees
by an unanimous vote; 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 investment fee base rate.The stormwater plant investment fee base rate
is six thousand three hundred ninety dollars ($6,390.)per gross acre of area.
Section 2. That the amendment to Chapter 26 of the City Code contained herein shall
go into effect January 1, 2012.
Introduced, considered favorably on first reading, and ordered published this 18th day of
October, A.D. 2011, and to be presented for final passage on the 1 st day of November, A.D. 2011.
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