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~/ <br />/~ .. <br />APPENDIX A" <br />. ORDINANCE N0. I9773 <br />AN ORDINANCE REGARDING.SYSTEMS DEVELOPMENT CHARGES; <br />°AMENDING SECTIONS 7.Oi0 AND 7.06.5 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, ANO 7.740. <br />TO THAT COOP; 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 />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 maybe 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 1eve1 of new de'veToPment 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 improvemenia based <br />upon achy-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 />diture 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 SOC 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 SOC revenue and expenditures. However, nothing in this <br />Finding shall preclude the City from advancing"the cost of constructing sani= <br />Ordinance - 1 ~ . <br />