Cathedral City Municipal Code Ch. 14.34 Reimbursements for Public Financed Street Improvements

From time to time, the public interest necessitates that the street improvements abutting undeveloped property be installed and easements be dedicated prior to a development of such property, and that city funds or funds from other public agencies be expended to install such improvements.

(Ord. 402 § 2, 1994)

Whenever city or other governmental agency funds are to be expended to install street improvements and/or acquire rights-of-way adjacent to undeveloped property, and the development of such property would be conditioned to install the same improvements, the city engineer shall prepare a report which shall:

A. Describe the street improvement to be installed and the rights-of-way to be acquired;

B. Estimate the cost of such improvements and rights-of-way;

C. List adjacent undeveloped parcel or parcels that will benefit from said improvements;

D. Allocate the total cost of the improvements and rights-of-way to the undeveloped parcel or parcels according to the share of the improvements that would have been required to be installed by the developer of each such parcel.

(Ord. 402 § 2, 1994)

The city engineer shall send to the record owner of each such parcel a notice describing the nature of the improvements to be installed or rights-of-way to be acquired, the total cost of the improvements and rights-of-way, and the cost of the improvements and rights-of-way to be allocated to that owner's parcel. The city clerk shall cause to be recorded in the office of the county recorder a notice of obligation to reimburse the cost of the improvements and rights-of-way. Such notice shall identify the property affected by legal description, assessor parcel number, and by ownership, and shall contain a brief description of the improvements and rights-of-way. The cost allocated to that parcel, and an advisement that the allocated cost will be charged by the city as a condition of the development of said property.

(Ord. 402 § 2, 1994)

The cost allocated to that parcel shall be paid to the city before subdivision of the parcel or parcels, or the issuance of building permits, thereupon, whichever occurs first.

(Ord. 402 § 2, 1994)

Moneys collected pursuant to this chapter for projects funded in whole or in part by other governmental agencies shall be released to that agency upon their collection by the city.

(Ord. 402 § 2, 1994)