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S ~.~r. <br />. . <br />c, '. ~ .. <br />APPENDIX A <br />ORDINANCE N0. 19773 <br />~ AN ORDINANCE REGARDING SYSTEMS DEVELOPMENT CHARGES; <br />AMENDING SECTIONS 7.OI0 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 />: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 />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 />8. 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 healtfi may be affected <br />if adequately sized sanitary and storm sewers .are-not provided in all loco- <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 />SCD 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 acty-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 administrat ive cost to account for receipt-and exp'en- <br />diture of SCO revenues based upon geographic areas of the City rather than on <br />a city-wide basis would di-vert revenue from needed capital improvement pro- <br />j ects. 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 far 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 hall preclude the City from advancing the cost of constructing sani- <br />-. Ordinance _ 1 <br />