Redlands Municipal Code Ch. 3.53 Nonpotable Water Service Rates and Development Impact Fees

There is established a nonpotable water fund to provide for administration, operation and maintenance of the Redlands nonpotable water system and its capacity to serve its new and existing users. The following rules shall apply:

A. All service charges and all miscellaneous charges not otherwise designated shall be credited to the nonpotable water fund. The nonpotable water fund shall be operated as an enterprise fund. All interest on the cash balance of the fund shall accrue to the nonpotable water fund. (Ord. 2608 § 3, 2005)

Amounts of charges are set out in table 3.53.020 of this section.

TABLE 3.53.020 NONPOTABLE WATER SERVICE RATE SCHEDULE BIMONTHLY RATES

Nonpotable water rates effective January 1, 2010:

A. Nonpotable Water Usage Charge: $0.99 per 100 cubic feet

B. Nonpotable Water Service Charge:

C. Water Service Charge Reduction: For the purpose of encouraging conservation of water, there shall be a reduced nonpotable water service charge applicable to those water customers of the city who voluntarily undertake the conversion of their plumbing systems in accordance with city standards to accept the delivery of nonpotable water. Notwithstanding any other provisions of this section, the water usage charge for such persons shall be sixty four cents ($0.64) per one hundred (100) cubic feet. (Ord. 2754, 2011)

A nonpotable water capital improvement fund is hereby established to implement the Redlands general plan and finance the construction of nonpotable water capital facilities to provide new capacity required to serve new development requiring nonpotable water service from the city. Included are development of nonpotable water resources, nonpotable 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 construction of nonpotable water capital facilities benefits all new development which is required to obtain nonpotable water service from the city. This chapter shall establish the method of collecting fees for financing construction of the nonpotable water capital facilities other than those facilities which are provided through the approval of subdivisions, parcel map, or other development entitlements conditioned under title 18, "Zoning Regulations", of this code. All interest on the cash balance of the fund shall accrue to the nonpotable water capital improvement fund. (Ord. 2704 § 2, 2008)

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

NONPOTABLE WATER CAPITAL FACILITIES: The water capital facilities described in the "Non-Potable/Recycled Water Rate Analysis And Development Impact Fees Study" as prepared by the municipal utilities and engineering department and approved by the city which identifies facilities and improvements required to serve new development that will be required to obtain city nonpotable water service. (Ord. 2704 § 2, 2008)

Except as otherwise provided for in this section, the nonpotable water development impact fee shall be paid as a condition of approval of an application for a new nonpotable water connection or, for any property or use having an existing nonpotable 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 fee 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 nonpotable water development impact fees shall be deposited into the city's nonpotable water capital improvement fund. The amounts of fees shall be established as provided for in section 3.53.060 of this chapter. (Ord. 2704 § 2, 2008)

A. Fee: The nonpotable water development impact fee for all new development shall be in the amount of one hundred forty six dollars ($146.00) per one hundred (100) cubic feet of estimated flow per month. Effective January 1, 2010, this fee will automatically increase based upon the "Engineering News Record" construction cost index up to a maximum of five percent (5%).

B. Adjustment Of Fee: On January 1, 2010, and every two (2) years thereafter, the city's finance director, in coordination with the city's municipal utilities and engineering director, shall make annual adjustments to the nonpotable water development impact fee established by this chapter by a percentage equal to the percentage change in the "Engineering News Record" construction cost index - twenty (20) cities annual average for the preceding twelve (12) month period. The purpose of such 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. 2704 § 2, 2008)