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<br />L - <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 />SECTIONS 7.245, 7.275, 7.277, 7.279, 7.281, 7.283, <br />AND SECTION 7.285 OF TNAT 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 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 />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 a city-wide priority rather than to hold the SDC revenue generated in <br />one area of the community far 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 />jests. 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 />