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Home My WebLink AboutOrdinance 10978ORDINANCE N0. _ ~~~~~ AN ORDINANCE AMENDING SECTION 35-58, OF CHAPTER 35 OF THE CODE OF THE CITY OF FORT WORTH (1986), AS AMENDED, BY REVISING CERTAIN WATER CHARGES; MAKING THIS ORDINANCE CUMULATIVE OF PRIOR ORDINANCE; REPEALING ALL ORDINANCES AND PROVISIONS OF THE CODE OF THE CITY OF FORT WORTH IN CONFLICT HEREWITH; PROVIDING A SAVINGS CLAUSE; PROVIDING A SEVERABILITY CLAUSE; PROVIDING ENGROSSMENT AND ENROLLMENT; AND PROVIDING AN EFFECTIVE DATE. BE I1' ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF FORT WORTH, TEXAS: SECTION 1. That Section 35-58, Front Foota a Char es for Service Connections of Chapter 35 of the Code of the City of Fort Worth 1986 as amended, be and the same is hereby amended and, after having been so amended, shall hereinafter read and be as follows: "Sect. 35-58 Front Footage Charges for Service Connection. (a) In addition to other connection charges provided in this chapter, a front footage charge shall be paid for all service connections made from and after the effective date hereof to all water and sanitary sewer mains in the following cases: (1) Service connections made to an approach facility constructed by a developer or single customer property owner before December 31, 1983. (2) Service connections or extensions made to serve adjacent property from an approach facility constructed by a developer or single customer property owner after December 31, 1983. (3) Service connections or extensions made to vacant lots from a water main that has been replaced at developer or single customer property owner cost. (4) Service connections or extensions made to vacant lots from a facility installed by multiple single customer property owners. (b) The following definitions shall be used in interpreting this section: (1) Single Customer Property Owner shall mean an existing occupied residential establishment or an existing commercial establishment. (2) Developer shall mean any type of new customer other than "single". -1- ~ ~ r ~.~.-~l (3) Commercial establishment shall mean any establishment other than a one or two-unit residence. (4) Front Footage shall mean the number of linear feet in that portion of a property boundary abutting a street, alley or easement containing a sanitary sewer or water main for which front footage charges are collected for connection. (c) In the case of an easement containing a sanitary sewer for which footage charges are collected for connection, which sewer crosses through the property served, the boundary on which the front footage charge is to be based shall be the length of the sewer within the limits of such property measured along the center line of such sewer. (d) Front footage to be used in application of front footage charges shall be determined as follows: (1) The front footage charge shall apply directly to property platted into the usual rectangular lots or tracts of land. (2) Where the property served is irregular in shape, the front footage shall be computed as one-sixth (1/6) of the perimeter of such property. The payment of front footage charges by the customer shall be the lesser amount as calculated above, or as calculated by the number of linear feet of property abutting a street, alley or easement containing a sanitary sewer or water facility. A front footage charge will be due each time a connection is made to a different water or sewer main from such irregular shaped lot or tract. (3) On property which is rectangular in shape and has more than one (1) boundary abutting a street, alley or easement containing a sanitary sewer or water facility serving the property, only that boundary across which a connection is effected will be used in determining front footage charges. (4) The amount of the front footage charge to be made for each service connection to a water main under this section shall be nine dollars and ninety-five cents ($9.95) per front foot. (5) The amount of the front footage charge to be made for each service connection to a sanitary sewer main under this section shall be eleven dollars and forty-five cents ($11.45) per front foot. (6) The front footage charges prescribed herein shall become effective January 1, 1992, and shall apply to all developer projects on which construction bids have not been opened by that date. -2- ar' 'h.. (7) The applicable front footage charges required hereunder for water or sanitary sewer service connections shall be paid before a plumbing permit can be issued. SECTION 2. That this ordinance shall repeal every rior ordinance and provision of the Code of the City of Fort Worth, Texas, (1986 , as amended, in .conflict herewith .but only insofar as any portion of such prior ordinance or provision shall be in conflict, and as to all other ordinance or provisions of the Code of the City of Fort Worth not in direct conflict herewith, this ordinance shall be and is hereby made cumulative. SECTION 3. That City Secretary of the City of Fort Worth is hereby directed to engross and enroll this ordinance by copying the caption in the minutes of the City Council and by filing the ordinance in the ordinance records of the City. SECTION 4. It is hereby declared to be the intention of the City Council that the sections, paragraphs, sentences, clauses and phrases of this ordinance are severable, and if any phrase, clause, sentence, paragraph or section of this ordinance shall be declared unconstitutional by the valid judgement or decree of any court of competent jurisdiction, such unconstitutionality shall not affect any of the remaining, phrases, clauses, sentences, paragraphs and sections of this ordinance, since the same would have been enacted by the City Council without the incorporation in this ordinance of any such unconstitutional phrase, clause, sentence, paragraph or section. SECTION 5. This ordinance shall be in full force and effect from and after the date of its passage, and it is so ordained. APPROVED AS TO FORM AND LEGALITY: ~`~ Date: ~L~9/91 Adopted: loS J/~°' ~`~ Effective: -3- ~~ASfER FILE i ^+ .000UNTlNG 2 TRANSPORTATiOt1~PUBUC WORKS•• C~,/"./ O~ ~~t ~0~~ / Q~/1(~ y 4TER AOtd INISl RA' N ~~~ ~~ '~~~I'~'~ • • LRVJ 1 unZc ~t ~~DE~\'EjL V V I SUBJECT I ADOPTION OF ORDINANCE ESTABLISHING FRONT FOOT CHARGES FOR WATER AND SANITARY I SEWER CONNECTIONS TO BE EFFECTIVE JANUARY 1. 1992 RECOMMENDATION: It is recommended that: 1. The attached. ordinance be adopted, to be effective January 1, 1992, amending Section 35-58 of Chapter 35 oaf the Fort Worth City Code decreasing front foot charges for water service connection from $10.20 per front foot to $9.95 per front foot and increasing front foot charges for sanitary sewer service connections from $11.20 per front foot to $11.45 per front foot, and 4 2. The Water and Sanitary Sewer installation policy be amended to incorporate these front foot charges, such charges to become effective January 1, 1992 and shall apply to all developer projects on which bids are opened and extensions which are authorized between January 1, 1992, and June 30, 1992. DISCUSSION: Front foot charges are used to reimburse developers for the cost of approach mains which they installed. Extension charges are calculated in order to determine the front foot charge. Extension charges are the average contract cost per linear foot of six and eight inch off-site and on-site water and sanitary sewer facilities. The period of December 1, 1990, through November 30, 1991 is used to calculate the proposed charges. Proposed front foot charges are one-half of the average extension charges. These proposed front foot charges have been compared with the current charges as follows: Computation of Proposed Charges Average Extension Proposed Current Front Charge Front Foot Facility Foot Char a Per Foot Char e Water 10.20 19.90 9.95 Sanitary Sewer $11.20 $22.90 $11.45 Under the extension policy, a developer wil~ and sanitary sewer mains. When connections charges apply and refund credit is provided Policy is revised to provide water and sew pay the actual cost for extension of water are made to existing mains, the front foot to the developer. The Community Facilities 'r front foot charges as stated above. Printed on recycled paper ~ A City of Fart Worth, Texas Mayor and Council Communication A E 12/19/91 REFEREN E NUMBER **G-9430 L NAME 60FOOT PA E 2 of 2 SUBJECT ADOPTION OF ORDINANCE ESTABLISHING FRONT FOOT CHARGES FOR WATER AND SANITARY SEWER CONNECTIONS TO BE EFFECTIVE JANUARY 1 1992 Similar recomputations and revisions of front foot charges are made each six months. The current front foot charges are recommended to be replaced on January 1, 1992. MG:k Su itte for C ty Manager's FUND ACCOUNT CENTER AMOUNT );Y RETARY Office by: to ' ~~~ ' ~- ~ ~ CITY CCJi`~C~~ Mike Groomer 6140 c!0~!ed Ordinance N 0. Originating Depart~ent Nea DEC ~ J ;y~~~ J Richard Sawey 8201 rom ~ For Additional Inforsation Contact: City Aaccstar~ of t;:e Richard Sawey 8207 cityaf:urttirorc,foxat Printed on recyde0 paper