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Home My WebLink AboutOrdinance 10622_ _ r ORDINANCE N0. 1OCo2~ ' 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 FOR ENGROSSMENT AND ENROLLMENT; AND PROVIDING`AN EFFECTIVE DATE. BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF FORT WORTH, TEXAS: SECTION 1. That Section 35-58, Front Footage Charges 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: "Sec. 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 mains constructed by or paid for, in whole or in part, by a developer after October 1, 1961, except connections to on-site mains and except for reconnection of single customers to a water main enlarged to provide adequate water service. (b) In addition to other connection charges provided in this chapter, a front footage charge shall be paid for all connections to sewer mains which were constructed after October 1, 1964, such sewer mains having been paid for, in whole or in part, by a developer. (c) The following definitions shall be used in interpreting this section: (1) Single Customer shall mean an existing occupied residential establishment or an existing commercial establishment. (2) Developer shall mean any type of new customer of-her than 'single'. 1 R ~ •. ~a- (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. 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. Front footage to be used in application of front footage charges shall be determined as follows: (a) The front footage charge shall apply directly to property platted into the usual rectangular,. lots or tracts of land. (b) 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. (c) 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. (d) The amount of the front footage charge to be made for each service connection to a water main under this section shall be ten dollars and forty cents ($10.40) per front foot. (e) The amount of the front footage charge to be made for each service connection to a sanitary 2 sewer main under this section shall be nine dollars and seventy-five cents ($9.75) per front foot. , (f) The front footage charges prescribed herein shall become effective July 1, 1990, and shall ___ apply to all developer projects on which construction bids have not been opened by that date. (g) 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 prior 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 ordinances 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. 'The 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 judgment 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. 3 ~- ,,~,. APPROVED AS TO FORM AND LEGALITY: ~~ ~~~ITY ATT NEY DATE: ~ g~~ ADOPTED: ~9~ EFFECTIVE 4 yASlER fILE - ACCOUNTING•2 pity of wort - worth, ~ex~s TRANSPORTATION~pUBLIC WO .B ~ /J /~ ~J~///7// ~ // /-//~// ~]~'~-~ /~ Q ,/~/{. ICIER AOMINISIRATION • ~~ lL7/ ®~ ~W~~1~1V ~®LLJIV~~~IV ~® U Y IV~ (L/IV~~~~LLi~®~ MANAGEMENT ~` ,/ It is recommended that: SUBJECT• I.VI VJLV VIIll1.4LJ FRONT CHARGES FOR WATER AND SANITARY SEWER CONNECTIONS PAGE 2 1 of 1. The attached ordinance be adopted, to be effective July 1, 1990, amending Section 35-58 of Chapter 35 of the Fort Worth City Code increasing front foot charges for water service connections from $10.25 per front foot to $10.40 per front foot and increasing front foot charges for sanitary sewer service connections from $8.75 per front foot to $9.75 per front foot; and 2. The Water and Sanitary Sewer Installation Policy be amended to incorporate these front foot charges and increase the charge per foot of extensions constructed by City forces from $20.50 per foot to $20.80 per foot for water facilities and to increase the charge for sanitary sewer facilities from $17.50 per foot to $19.50 per foot, such charges to become effective July 1, 1990, and to be incorporated into all developer projects on which bids have not been received by that date. DISCUSSION The proposed 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 completed from June 1, 1989, through May 31, 1990. Proposed front foot charges are one-half of the proposed extension charges. These proposed charges have been compared with the current extension and front foot charges as follows: Computation of Proposed Charges ~ , ,~ .. -`*~`~# ti~Extension Extension FooteChargent Proposed Charge Charge Front Foot Per Foot Per Foot Charge DATE REFERENCE NUMBER 6-26-90 G-8694 RECOMMENDATION: ,,, •. u, Water $20.50 $20.80 $10.25 $10.40 Sanitary Sewer ''k~$f}7,,~,50 $19.50 $ 8.75 $ 9.75 rv « y~yn i. f..g'jt.4 Where extens`ions`~are•"`made for developers or single customers the charge per foot of water and•%or `sewer extensions has been set as stated above under the "proposed extension~~charge." Where connections are made to existing mains, the front foot charge is calculated as one-half of the extension charge. On this basis, the Community Facilities Policy should be amended to provide water and sewer extension charges for facilities constructed. The City's participation, approximately 20 percent, is in the added costs for pipe sizes larger than that required to serve a development. These added costs are not included on the above computation. ' ~Ii ~ I DATE REFERENCE SUBJECT PROPOSED CHANGES IN 9PAGE NUMBER FRONT CHARGES FOR WATER AND 2 6-26-90 G-8694 SANITARY SEWER CONNECTIONS ~ ° Similar recomputations and revisions of front foot and extension charges will be made each six months, with the next charges to be based on completed contract costs for the period of December 1, 1989, through November 30, 1990. The next revision will take effect January 1, 1991. It is necessary to provide for an orderly transition from the old front foot charges and the old extension charges to be effective July 1, 1990. The above recommen dations have been prepared to meet that requirement. RG:v/6 APPROVED BY. CITY COUNCIL ~uN 2s 1990 ~~~ City SecxetacZt of the City of Fort Worth, Team SUBMITTED FOR THE OFFICEABYGER'S Ramon Guajardo 6191 DISPOSITION BY COUNCIL: ^ APPROVED PROCESSED BY ORIGINATING ^ OTHER (DESCRIBE) DEPARTMENT HEAD: R1 Chard Sawey 8246 CITY SECRETARY FOR ADDITIONAL fNFORMAT,10rank Crumb 8240 t' Adopted Ordinance No. ~ CONTACT DATE