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HomeMy WebLinkAboutORD 1997-01 - Board .... AN�� N0 970�' .. OF THE . Tf UGKE - DONNLR PUBLIC UT L.ITYDISTRICT ESTi4BLlSH/NG Wi4TER FAiLITiES.FELS WHEREAS, a study was conducted of the impacts of contemplated future development on this District's existing water services and facilities in the District's water service area along with an analysis of new, improved or expanded public water facilities and improvements required or appropriate to serve new development and said study set forth the relationship between new development, those services or facilities and the estimated costs of those improvements. The study is the District's Water System Master Plan 1995- 2015. WHEREAS, this Water System Master Plan was available for public inspection and review ten (10) days prior to this public hearing and notice was given in compliance with Government Code Section 66016, and WHEREAS, a public hearing, noticed pursuant to and in compliance with Government Code Sections 66018 and 6062a, was held at a regularly scheduled meeting of the Board of Directors, and _ WHEREAS, the Board of Directors finds as follows: A. The purpose of this fee is to finance public water system facilities to reduce the impacts of additional demands on the existing water system caused by new development within the District's water service area. B. The water facilities fees collected pursuant to this ordinance shall be used to finance the public facilities described or identified in the Water System Master Plan 1995- 2015. C. After considering the Water System Master Plan and analysis prepared by Sauers Engineering, Inc. and the testimony received at public hearings, the Board finds that the new development in the water service area will generate additional need for new water system facilities within the impacted area as described in the 1995-2014 Water Master Plan map and will contribute to the degradation of the public water supply in that area. D. It is appropriate or necessary in this described impact area to provide for water system facilities which have not been constructed or have been constructed but new development has not contributed its fair share towards these facility costs and said facilities. E. The facts and evidence presented establish that there is a reasonable relationship between the need for the described public facilities and the impacts of the types of development described in paragraph three below, for which the corresponding fee is charged and there is a reasonable relationship between the fee's use and the type of development for which the fee is charged, as these reasonable relationships or nexus are in more detail described in the Water System Master Plan referred to above. F. In compliance with the California Environmental Quality Act, following a properly noticed public hearing held at a regularly scheduled meeting of the Board of Directors, the Board did adopt a Negative Declaration for the adoption of the Water System Master Plan Update and water facilities fees. A Notice of Determination was filed with both the Nevada and Placer County Clerks in March of 1997. G. The cost estimates set forth in the Water System Master Plan 1995 - 2015 are reasonable cost estimates for constructing these facilities and the fees expected to be generated by new development will not exceed the total of these costs. NOW, THEREFORE, the Board of Directors of the Truckee Donner Public Utility District does enact as follows: 1. Definition - "New development" shall mean construction of residential improvements, construction of commercial, industrial or other non-residential improvements, or the addition of floor space to existing improvements which involve the issuance of a permit for construction or reconstruction. 2. A water facilities fee shall be charged upon application for water service and shall be paid prior to provision of water service by new development in the water service area depicted and described on the Master Plan map. The District Water Planner shall determine if the development lies within this area, the type of development and the corresponding fee to be charged in accordance with this ordinance. 3. Fee - Water facilities fees shall be charged according to the following schedule: METER SIZE EDU FACILITIES (inches) FEE 518 x 314 1 $ 707 314 1.5 1,060 1 2.5 11767 1 % 5 3,535 2 8 5,656 3 15 10,605 4 25 17,675 6 50 35,350 4. Use of Fee- The fee shall be solely used to pay(1) for all costs associated with the described public facilities to be constructed by the District, (2) for reimbursing the District for the development's fair share of those capital improvements already constructed by the District, or (3) to reimburse other developers who have constructed public facilities described in the 1995 - 2015 Water System Master Plan, where those facilities were beyond that needed to mitigate the impacts of the other developers'project or projects. 5. Fee review - On or about March of each following year, the District's staff shall review the estimated cost of the described capital improvements, the continued need for those improvements and the reasonable relationship between such need and the impacts of the various types of development pending or anticipated and for which this fee is charged. The staff shall report its findings to the Board of Directors at a noticed public hearing and recommend any adjustment to this fee or other action as may be needed. 6. If no protest is made pursuant to Public Utilities Code Section 16078, then this ordinance shall be effective sixty (60) days after the date it was adopted by the Board of Directors. 7. The Clerk of the District shall immediately cause a copy of this ordinance to be published in a newspaper of general circulation and posted in three places within the District. PASSED AND ADOPTED by the Board of Directors at a meeting duly called and held within the District on the fifth day of March 1997 by the following roll call vote: AYES: Aguera, Jones, Maass and Hemig. NOES: Sutton. ABSENT.- None. TRUCKS DONNER PUB IC UTILITY DISTRICT By . Peter L. Hol eister, C erk of the Board AT an M. Craig, Deputy Distric Jerk