Redlands Municipal Code Ch. 3.48 Water Capital Improvement Fund

The Water Capital Improvement Fund is established to implement the Redlands general plan and finance the construction of water capital facilities and improvements to provide new capacity required to serve new development requiring water service from the City. Included are development of water resources, water production, transmission, storage, and other capital facilities and appurtenances over and above the eight inch (8") distribution mains and appurtenances used to serve property frontage. The City Council finds that the completion of water capital facilities benefits all development which is required to obtain water service from the City. This chapter shall establish the method of collecting fees for financing construction of the water capital facilities other than those facilities which are provided through the approval of subdivisions, parcel maps, or other developments conditioned under title 18, "Zoning Regulations", of this Code. All interest on the cash balance of the fund shall accrue to the Water Capital Improvement Fund. (Ord. 2880, 2019)

ACCESSORY DWELLING UNIT: An attached or a detached residential dwelling unit which provides complete independent living facilities for one or more persons. It shall include permanent provisions for living, sleeping, eating, cooking, and sanitation on the same parcel as the single-family dwelling is situated. An accessory dwelling unit also includes the following:

A. An efficiency unit, as defined in section 17958.1 of the Health and Safety Code.

B. A manufactured home, as defined in section 18007 of the Health and Safety Code.

ADMINISTRATIVE AUTHORITY: The Director of Municipal Utilities and Engineering of the City.

DEVELOPMENT: Any use to which land is put, building or other alteration of land and construction incidental thereto.

SENIOR RESTRICTED DWELLING UNIT: For purposes of this chapter, is defined as:

A. A unit restricted by a covenant that runs with the land addressing the required age restriction to the satisfaction of the City.

B. The unit's water meter serves only internal water use. Landscape irrigation shall be provided through a separate water meter service.

C. The dwelling unit shall be less than one thousand five hundred (1,500) square feet of livable area.

Removal of the age restriction or an increase in the size of the unit will result in a reassessment of the charges.

WATER CAPITAL FACILITIES: The water capital facilities identified or referred to in the "Water and Wastewater Rate Study Update - 1991" as prepared by the Public Works Department and approved by the City which identifies facilities and improvements required to serve new development that will be required to obtain City water service. (Ord. 2880, 2019)

A. Except as otherwise provided for in this section, the water capital improvement fees shall be approved by the City Council and shall be paid as a condition of approval of an application for a new water connection or, for any property or use having an existing water connection and which is increasing its water demand on the City's utilities system, as a condition of issuance of any building permit, business license, or other entitlement from the City associated with the change in the property or use that is causing such increased demand. The charge due shall be that charge in effect on the date the application for a connection is approved or on the date the entitlement authorizing the increased demand is issued. All water capital improvement charges shall be deposited into the City's Water Capital Improvement Fund. (Ord. 2962, 2024: Ord. 2880, 2019)

On July 1 of each fiscal year, the City's Finance Director, in coordination with the City's Municipal Utilities and Engineering Director, shall make annual adjustments to the specific amounts of the water capital improvement fees approved by the City Council by a percentage equal to the percentage change in the construction cost index of the Engineering News-Record's "Construction Cost Index" - twenty (20) cities annual average for the preceding twelve (12) month period. The purpose of this adjustment is to offset the effects of inflation related construction cost increases or any deflation related decreases. If this index should cease publication, the Finance Director shall use any appropriate official index published by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, or similar agency as may then exist or may then be most nearly equivalent thereto. (Ord. 2962, 2024: Ord. 2880, 2019)