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i <br /> <br /> . f <br /> - ~ APPENDIX A <br /> I <br /> ~ ORDINANCE N0. 19773 <br /> i <br /> AN ORDINANCE REGARDING SYSTEMS DEVELOPMENT CHARGES; <br /> AMENDING SECTIONS 7.010 AND 7.065 OF THE EUGENE CODE, <br /> 1971; ADDING SECTIONS 7.407, 7.700, 7.702, 7.705, <br /> 7.710, 7.715, 7.720, 7.725, 7.730, 1.735, AND 7.140 <br /> ~ TO THAT CODE; REPEALING SUBSECTION 1.175(2)(b)5.d, <br /> SECTIONS 7.245, 7.275, 7.277, 7.279, 7.281, 7.283, <br /> AND SECTION 7.285 OF THAT CODE; AND DECLARING AN <br /> EMERGENCY. <br /> THE CITY OF EUGENE DOES ORDAIN AS FOLLOWS: <br /> I <br /> Section 1. The Council hereby finds: <br /> A. Section 4 of the Eugene Charter of 1976, ORS 223.208 and 223.297 <br /> through 223.314 grant the City the authority to impose system development <br /> charges (SDC) to equitably spread the cost of essential capital improvements <br /> to new development. <br /> B. Given the mobility of the population and the geographic size of the <br /> City, most capital improvement projects benefit new development regardless of <br /> where in the City it occurs. The entire community's health may be affected <br /> if adequately sized sanitary and storm sewers are not provided in all loca- <br /> tions of the City and its environs. Except as modified in Finding D below, <br /> . development is occurring throughout the entire City and no single area of the <br /> City is experiencing such a high level of new development activity to require <br /> SCO revenue from development in one area be dedicated to that same area. It <br /> is more cost efficient to use SDC revenue from new development in the entire <br /> community to finance the growth related portion of capital improvements based <br /> upon a city-wide priority rather than to hold the. SDC revenue generated in <br /> one area of the community for improvements just in that area. <br /> C. The increase in administrative cost to account for receipt and expen- <br /> d iture of SCD revenues based upon geographic areas of the City rather than on <br /> a city-wide basis would divert revenue from needed capital improvement pro- <br /> jects. Except as stated in Finding D below, the benefit of minimizing admin- <br /> istrative costs attributable to the system development charge outweighs the <br /> benefit of allocating SDC revenues and expenditures based upon geographic <br /> areas. <br /> D. In an endeavor to equitably spread the cost of providing sanitary <br /> sewer service between new development within the corporate limits of the <br /> City and existing and new development in the unincorporated areas of River <br /> Road and Santa Clara, the system development charge established for sanitary <br /> sewers in River Road and Santa Clara shall recover the cost of capital im- <br /> provements constructed to serve those areas. To the extent possible the <br /> methodology for sanitary sewers shall take into account the necessity of <br /> segregating such SDC revenue and expenditures. However, nothing in this <br /> _ Finding shall preclude the City from advancing the cost of constructing sani- <br /> Ordinance - 1 <br /> <br />