Chapter 100 - Benefited District Sewer Connection Charges

100.01    GENERAL PROVISIONS.  The purpose of this chapter is to establish storm and sanitary sewer connection charges for certain properties within the City to recover the costs of designing and constructing major storm or sanitary sewer facilities from property owners who connect to such facilities subsequent to their construction.  In the event the Council determines the necessity of constructing a major storm or sanitary sewer facility and determines that the utilization of a connection charge is the most equitable manner in which to recover the City’s costs associated therewith, the Council shall first hold a public hearing on the proposed adoption of an ordinance to establish a benefited district and a connection charge. (Ord. 03-01 – Feb. 03 Supp.)

100.02    DEFINITIONS.  The following terms are defined for use in this chapter:

1.                  “Benefited district” means that area of the City to which storm or sanitary sewer service can feasibly be provided by a major storm or sanitary sewer facility of a given design and capacity.

2.                  “Connection” means the act of connecting a building storm or sanitary sewer to a lateral sewer or manhole constituting a part of a major storm or sanitary sewer facility, or the act of connecting a lateral sewer serving a subdivision to a trunk sewer or manhole constituting a part of a major storm or sanitary sewer facility.

3.                  “Major storm or sanitary sewer facility or facilities” means and includes storm or sanitary sewer mains, storm or sanitary sewer trunk lines or storm or sanitary sewer interceptors eight (8) inches in diameter or larger, and storm or sanitary sewer force mains, pumping stations and detention basins.                                                     (Ord. 03-01 – Feb. 03 Supp.)

100.03    CONNECTION CHARGE REQUIRED.  After the effective date of the ordinance establishing a benefited district and a connection charge, no owner of property within the district, whose property is eligible for connection to the storm or sanitary sewer facility, shall make such connection until the required connection charge has been paid.  The sewer connection charge required by this chapter is in addition to, and not in lieu of, any other fees required under the plumbing code or other provisions of this Code of Ordinances.  In the event a property owner makes a connection to the storm or sanitary sewer facility without having paid the required connection charge, the City shall disconnect the building storm or sanitary sewer until the required charge has been paid.

Beginning January 1, 2003, the connection charges set forth in the subsequent sections of this chapter of the Code of Ordinances will be calculated with a 5.0 percent increase as of each January 1 following adoption of the particular hookup fee.  In no event will the connection fee calculated hereunder exceed twice the amount of the original connection fee.           (Ord. 03-01 – Feb. 03 Supp.)

1.         There is hereby established a benefited sanitary sewer district, consisting of two sections, to be known as the Mulberry Ridge Sanitary Sewer District.  Said district encompasses 1620 acres more or less (excluding Lowe Park) lying within the following boundaries:

All of the Dry Creek Drainage Area north of East Robins Road, Linn County, Iowa.

2.         The schedule of fees for connecting property in said benefited district to the City sewer(s) are as follows:

A.        21 Inch Sanitary Sewer Under East Robins Road:

Capacity Rate Method – Based on DNR density specifications

Acreage Method (Residential) = $42.00/acre

Medium Density (Multi-Family) 11-15 people/acre = $63.00/acre

High Density (Multi-Family) 16+ people/acre = $210.00/acre

Commercial, institutional or office use = $210.00/acre

B.         12 Inch Sanitary Sewer Along the North Side of East Robins Road:

Capacity Rate Method – Based on DNR density specifications

Acreage Method (Residential) = $455.00/acre

Medium Density (Multi-Family) 11-15 people/acre = $683.00/acre

High Density (Multi-Family) 16+ people/acre = $1,365.00/acre

Commercial, institutional or office use = $2,275.00/acre

(Ord. 01-38 – Feb. 02 Supp.)

1.         There is hereby established a benefited sanitary sewer district, consisting of two sections, to be known as the Linn-Mar Sanitary Sewer District.  Said district encompasses 1620 acres more or less (excluding Lowe Park) lying within the following boundaries:

North extension of Dry Creek Sanitary Sewer, north of East Robins Road, Linn County, Iowa.

2.         The schedule of fees for connecting property in said benefited district to the City sewer(s) are as follows:

Acreage Method

Residential, R-2 - $407,560.05/1200 Ac. = $340.00/acre (rounded up)

1000 gal. per capita per day

Medium Density (Multi-Family) 11-15 people/acre = $510.00/acre

1500 gal. per capita per day

High Density (Multi-Family) above 15 people/acre = $1020.00/acre

3000 gal. per capita per day (assumed 30 people/acre)

Commercial, institutional or office use = $1700.00/acre

5000 gal. per acre

(Ord. 02-07 – May 02 Supp.)

1.         There is hereby established a benefited sanitary sewer district to be known as the Glen Rock Farms Sanitary Sewer District.  Said district lying within the following boundaries:

All of the Barry’s Run Drainage Area North of Huntington Hills Addition, Linn County, Iowa.

2.         The schedule of fees for connecting property in said benefited district to the City sewer(s) are as follows:

12 inch sanitary sewer extension for Glen Rock Farms Addition north of Huntington Hills Addition:

Capacity Rate Method – Based on DNR density specifications.

Unit Method (Residential) = $346.00/residential dwelling unit.

(Ord. 02-12 – Aug. 02 Supp.)

1.         There is hereby established a benefited sanitary sewer district to be known as the Huntington Hills Sanitary Sewer District.  Said district lying within the following boundaries:

All of the Barry’s Run Drainage Area North of and including the Huntington Hills 1^st Addition, Linn County, Iowa.

2.         The schedule of fees for connecting property in said benefited district to the City sewer(s) are as follows:

12 inch sanitary sewer extension from the east side of Winslow Road to the south property line of Huntington Hills 1^st Addition:

Capacity Rate Method – Based on DNR density specifications.

1.         There is hereby established a benefited storm sewer district, consisting of one section, to be known as the 29^th Avenue Storm Sewer District.  Said district encompasses the North side of 29^th Avenue from station 10+53 to 28+00 as established in the 2002 29^th Avenue Phase I Paving Project.

2.         The schedule of fees for connecting property in said benefited district to the City sewer(s) are as follows:

$14.50 per L/F

Location of said storm sewer hook up fee shall be determined by the stationing established in the 2002 29^th Avenue Phase I Paving Project from station 10+53 to 28+00.

(Ord. 03-01 – Feb. 03 Supp.)

2.         The schedule of fees for connecting property in said benefited district to the City sewer(s) are as follows:

$642.26 per acre of land that will be served by said sewer extension.

Location of said sanitary sewer hook up fee shall be determined by the stationing established in the 2002 35^th Avenue Sanitary Sewer Project from station 0+00 to 13+36.

(Ord. 03-20 – Nov. 03 Supp.)

1.         There is hereby established a benefited sanitary sewer district, consisting of one section, to be known as the Linn-Mar II Addition Sanitary Sewer District.  Said district encompasses 270 acres.

2.         The schedule of fees for connecting property in said benefited district to the City sewer(s) are as follows:

A.        Acreage Method

Residential, R-2 = $28.00/acre - 1000 gal. per capita per day

Medium Density (Multi-Family) 11-15 people/acre = $42.00/acre - 1500 gal. per capita per day

High Density (Multi-Family) above 15 people/acre = $84.00/acre - 3000 gal. per capita per day (assumed 30 people/acre)

Commercial, institutional or office use = $140.00/acre - 500 gal. per acre

B.         Location of said sanitary sewer hook up fee shall be determined by the stationing established in the Linn-Mar sanitary sewer trunk line extension of 2004.

(Ord. 04-06 – May. 04 Supp.)