Redlands Municipal Code Ch. 3.44 Sewer Capital Improvement Fund

A. The Sewer Capital Improvement Fund is established to implement the Redlands general plan and to finance the construction of wastewater capital facilities to provide new capacity required to serve development requiring sewer service from the City. Included are wastewater treatment plant facilities, sewer trunk lines, sewage disposal facilities, outfall sewers, interceptor sewers, and other capital facilities and appurtenances over and above the eight inch (8") collection mains and appurtenances used to serve property frontage, except as otherwise provided in chapter 13.44 of this Code.

B. The City Council finds that the construction of wastewater capital facilities benefits all development which is required to obtain sewer service from the City. This chapter shall establish the method of collecting fees for financing the construction of the wastewater capital facilities other than those facilities which are provided through the approval of subdivision or 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 Sewer Capital Improvement Fund. (Ord. 2880, 2019)

For the purpose of carrying out the intent of this chapter, the following definitions shall apply:

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.

ACCESSORY STRUCTURE: A detached subordinate structure located on the same parcel of ground with a main structure, the use of which is customarily incidental to that permitted in the main structure or to the land upon which the main structure is located including, but not limited to, laundry rooms, garages, hobby shops, guesthouses, or swimming pools connected to the building sewer.

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

BUILDING SEWER: That part of the horizontal piping of a drainage system which extends from the end of the building sewer drain and which receives the discharge of the building sewer drain and conveys it to a public sewer, private sewer, individual sewage disposal system or other point of disposal.

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

DWELLING: A structure designed and used exclusively for residential occupancy.

MOBILEHOME: A vehicle, other than a motor vehicle, designed or used for human habitation, for carrying persons and property on its own structure, and for being drawn by a motor vehicle.

MOBILEHOME PARK: Any area or tract of land where one or more mobilehome lots are rented or leased or held out for rent or lease to accommodate mobilehomes used for human habitation.

MULTIPLE-FAMILY DWELLING UNIT: A structure designed and used for the occupancy of two (2) or more families.

PERSON: A natural person, his heirs, executors, administrators, or assigns and also includes a firm, partnership, or corporation, and its or their successors or assigns, or the agent of any of the aforesaid.

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.

SINGLE-FAMILY DWELLING UNIT: A structure or portion thereof designed exclusively for the occupancy of one family.

STRUCTURE: Any building or improvement artificially built up or composed of parts joined together in some definite manner, including, but not limited to, dwellings, commercial structures, industrial structures, schools, churches, or hotels.

WASTEWATER CAPITAL FACILITIES: The wastewater 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 sewer service. (Ord. 2880, 2019)

The specific amounts of the sewer capital improvement charges shall be approved by the City Council and shall be paid as a condition of issuing building permits, or other City approved entitlement, as determined within the sole discretion of the City, for buildings containing plumbing fixtures and required to have new sewer services tapping into the City's sewage system or increasing flow into the City's sewer system as estimated by the City. The charges shall be those in effect on the date the permit is issued or as such other entitlement issued by the City. (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 sewer capital improvement fees adopted 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)