HomeMy WebLinkAbout070 - 05/20/2014 - AMENDING ARTICLE IV OF CHAPTER 26 OF THE CITY CODE TO ALLOW COMMON PRIVATE SERVICE LINES FOR WASTEWA ORDINANCE NO. 070, 2014
OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF FORT COLLINS
AMENDING ARTICLE IV OF CHAPTER 26 OF THE CODE OF THE
CITY OF FORT COLLINS TO ALLOW COMMON PRIVATE SERVICE LINES
FOR WASTEWATER SERVICE IN CERTAIN CIRCUMSTANCES
WHEREAS, Article IV of Chapter 26 of the Code of the City of Fort Collins ("City
Code") governs the requirements and conditions for wastewater service from the City's
Wastewater Utility; and
WHEREAS, Section 26-256 of the City Code requires that each residential service
property have an individual service line attached to a City main; and
WHEREAS, in certain conditions, the allowance of a shared private service line to serve
multiple residential properties is beneficial in order to reduce underground congestion of service
lines and to facilitate the planting of trees and other landscaping in green spaces above the
service lines; and
WHEREAS, City staff has developed certain conditions intended to protect the City and
ensure ongoing operation and maintenance of common private service lines, as described below;
and
WHEREAS, the Water Board considered the proposed amendment of the City Code to
allow common private service lines on April 17, 2014, and voted unanimously to recommend
approval of such an amendment.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
FORT COLLINS that Section 26-256 of the Code of the City of Fort Collins is hereby amended
by the addition of a new Subsection (c) which reads in its entirety as follows:
Sec. 26-256. Individual service lines for each building required.
(c) Notwithstanding the provisions of Subsection (a) of this Section, the Utilities
Executive Director may, after review and approval of the related plans and specifications,
authorize the service of more than one (1) property by a single, common, private sewer
service line, provided that:
(1) The properties to be served by the line must be single-family attached
dwellings on separate platted lots as defined in the Land Use Code.
(2) The combined wastewater flow from the properties may not exceed the
capacity of the line.
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(3) No more than six (6) single-family attached dwellings may be connected
to the line.
(4) The line must include a separate branch line to each single-family attached
property, and each branch line must include a clean-out that meets' the
requirements of the City Plumbing Code.
(5) The line connecting to the City sewer main and all branch service lines
must be owned, operated, maintained, repaired and replaced, as needed, by a legal
entity representing all of the owners of the properties served by the line.
(6) A written declaration of covenants in a form satisfactory to the Utilities
Executive Director must be recorded against the title to each and every property
served by a common private sewer service line imposing upon said property the
responsibility for operation, maintenance, repair and replacement of the line, and
establishing the right of the City to recover any costs incurred by the City in the
event of a failure to satisfactorily complete any such operation, maintenance,
repair or replacement of the line.
If the Utilities Executive Director determines that the foregoing criteria have been met, a
written permit shall be granted, which permit shall contain a listing of the foregoing
requirements as a condition of continued service hereunder and specific reference to
Subsection (c)(6) of this Section imposing shared responsibility for operation,
maintenance, repair and replacement of the common private service line shall be signed
by the Utilities Executive Director, and shall be duly recorded at the office of the County
Clerk and Recorder.
Introduced, considered favorably on first reading, and ordered published this 6th day of
May, A.D. 2014, and to be presented for final passage on the 20th day of May, A.D. 2014.
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Passed and adopted on final reading on this 20th day of May, A.D. 2014.
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