Oxnard Municipal Code Div. 4 Planned Water Facilities Fees

This division imposes fees to defray actual or estimated costs of constructing planned water facilities required by a development project.

(`64 Code, Sec. 27-89.40) (Ord. No. 2258)

The master plan of water facilities for the city contains an estimate of the total costs of constructing the water facilities required by the plan and a map of the area covered by the plan, showing the location of the facilities. The fees imposed by this division shall be based on the master plan of water facilities. The costs estimated in the master plan of water facilities shall be adjusted to reflect current costs.

(`64 Code, Sec. 27-89.41) (Ord. No. 2258)

The approval of each development project requiring a new connection to the city's water system shall be conditioned on the payment of fees to carry out the purpose of this division.

(`64 Code, Sec. 27-89.42) (Ord. No. 2258)

The fees collected shall be used to pay for only the planned water facilities identified in the staff report approved by the city council at the time of setting the fees.

(`64 Code, Sec. 27-89.43) (Ord. No. 2258)

(A) There is a reasonable relationship between the fee's use and the type of development project on which the fee is imposed, and between the need for the water facilities financed by the fee and the type of development project on which the fee is imposed in that all types of development projects subject to the fee require water, which requires more or higher capacity water facilities.

(B) (1) There is a reasonable relationship between the amount of the fee and the cost of the water facilities or portion thereof attributable to the development project on which the fee is imposed in that the cost estimates used to calculate the fee shall be reasonable estimates for constructing the water facilities identified, the total fees to be imposed shall not exceed the total of the cost estimates, and the fees to be imposed on a particular development project shall not exceed the project's proportionate share of the cost of the facilities that are necessary to serve the development project.

(2) Such cost estimates and the method of calculating each development project's proportionate share thereof shall be set out in the staff report approved by the city council at the time of setting the fees.

(`64 Code, Sec. 27-89.44) (Ord. No. 2258)