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r~ <br /> <br /> A 'ail ~ <br /> APPENDIX A <br /> .ORDINANCE N0. 19773 <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, 7.735, AND 7.740 <br /> TO THAT CODE; REPEALING SUBSECTION 7.175(2)(b)5.d, <br /> j SECTIONS 7.245, 7.275, 7.277, 7.279, 7.281, 7.283, <br /> ANO SECTION 7.285 OF THAT CODE; AND DECLARING AN <br /> EMERGENCY. <br /> THE CITY OF EUGENE DOES ORDAIN AS FOLLOWS: <br /> { <br /> ~ Section 1. The Council hereby finds: <br /> A. Section 4 of the Eugene Charter of 1976, ORS 223.208 and 223.297 <br /> 'I t!hrou h 223.314 rant the City the authority to impose system development <br /> 9 9 <br /> charges (SOC) to equitably spread the cost of essential capital improvements <br /> too new development. <br /> 6. Given the mobility of the population and the geographic size of the <br /> ity, most capital improvement projects benefit new development regardless of <br /> here 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 /> ions of the City and its environs. Except as modified in Finding D below, <br /> evelopment is occurring throughout the entire City and no single area of the <br /> ity is experiencing such a high level of new development activity to require <br /> 0 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 /> ommunity to finance the growth related portion of capital improvements based <br /> pon a city-wide priority rather than to hold the, SDC revenue generated in <br /> ane area of the community for improvements just in that area. <br /> C. The increase in administrative cost to account for receipt and expen- <br /> iture of SCD revenues based upon geographic areas of the City rather than on <br /> 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 /> enefit of allocating SDC revenues and expenditures based upon geographic <br /> recs. • <br /> D. In an endeavor to equitably spread the cost of providing sanitary <br /> ewer service between new development within the corporate limits of the <br /> ity and existing and new development in the unincorporated areas of River <br /> oad and Santa Clara, the system development charge established for sanitary <br /> ewers in River Road and Santa Clara shall recover the cost of capital im- <br /> rovements constructed to serve those areas. To the extent possible the <br /> ethodology for sanitary sewers shall take into account the necessity of <br /> egregating such SOC revenue and expenditures. However, nothing in this <br /> finding shall preclude the City from advancing the cost of constructing sani- <br /> • <br /> grdinance - 1 <br /> <br />