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Home My WebLink AboutOrdinance 9438.r ~,. '' 1 ~":Y ,S', Z ~ r A ORDINANCE NO. ~~ AN ORDINANCE AMENDING SECTION 37-26.1 OF CHAPTER 37 OF THE FORT WORTH CITY CODE (1964), AS AMENDED, BY REVISING CERTAIN CHARGES; MAKING THIS ORDINANCE CUMULATIVE OF PRIOR ORDINANCES; REPEALING ALL ORDINANCES AND PROVISIONS OF THE FORT WORTH CITY CODE IN CONFLICT HEREWITH; PROVIDING A SAVINGS CLAUSE; PROVIDING A SEVERABILITY CLAUSE; ENGROSSING AND ENROLLING THIS ORDINANCE; AND PROVIDING AN EFFECTIVE DATE. BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF FORT WORTH, TEXAS: SECTION 1. That Section 37-26.1, Front Footage Charges for Service Connections of Chapter 37 of the Fort Worth City Code (1964), as amended, be and the same is hereby amended and, after having been so amended, shall hereafter read and be as follows: "Sec. 37-26.1, Front footage charges for service connec- tions. "(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 or purchased after October 1, 1961, except connections to on-site mains for which the City has previously received payment from a developer and except for reconnection of single customers to a water main enlarged to provide adequate water ser- vice. "(b) In addition to other connection charges provided in this chapter, a front footage charge shall be paid for all sewer connections made from and after the effective date hereof to sanitary sewers authorized for construction after October 1, 1964, except service connections to sanitary sewers for which the City has previously received payment from a developer. "(c) The following definitions shall be used in interpreting this section: "(1) Single customer. An existing occupied residential establishment or an existing commercial establishment. ' i "(2) Developer. Any type of new Gusto- ; mer other than a 'single customer'. "(3) Commercial establishment. Any establishment other than a one or two-unit residence. "(4) Front footage. The number of lin-~ ear feet in that portion of a property boun- dary abutting a street, alley or easement containing a sanitary sewer or water main for which front footage charges are collect- ed 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 applica- tion 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 peri- meter 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 ease- ment containing a sanitary sewer or water facility. A front footage charge will be due each time a connection is made to a differ- ent water or sewer main from such irregular shaped lot or tract. "(c) On property which is rectangular in shape and has more than one boundary abutting a street, alley or easement con- taining 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 char- ges. "(d) The amount of the front footage charge to be made for each service connection to a water main under this section shall be eleven dollars and eighty cents ($11.80) per front foot. "(e) The amount of the front footage charge to be made for each service connection to a sanitary sewer main under this section shall be ten dollars and sixty cents ($10.60) per front foot. "(f) The front footage charges prescribed herein shall become effective on August. 1, 1985, and shall apply to all developer projects on which construction bids have not been opened by that date. "(g) The applicable front footage charges requir- ed hereunder for water or sanitary sewer service con- nections shall be paid before plumbing permit can be issued." 4 ,. SECTION 2. That this ordinance shall repeal every prior ordinance and provision of the Fort Worth City Code 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 provi- sions of the Fort Worth City Code not in direct conflict here- with, this ordinance shall be and is hereby made cumulative. SECTION 3 That 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 Coun- cil 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, senten- ces, paragraphs and sections of this ordinance, since the same would have been enacted by the City Council without the incor- poration in this ordinance of any such unconstitutional phrase, clause, sentence, paragraph or section. SECTION 5 That 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 LEG LITY: ~S's'i C ty Attorney , ' Date : 3 D - ~ ~ Adopted: ~~~y-S Effective : ~~ j U ~ ~5/ p:ord ~ _ - l:~rra Ft~e i - r~TY rE~~NhC R•S. ncro~ v~~~a ~ ,1~1[~~®~ ~IZD~~ c~®~~~~~ ~®?!~'IC1~1I'~,1UGD~?G~~G~?G®~ N n t'ER ip~DATEa7iufl ~: REFERENCE SUBJECT Proposed Changes i n Front Foot PAGE NUMBER Charges for Water and Sanitary 2 7/30/85 G-6394 _ Sewer Connections 1°r Recaimendati on: It is recommended that 1. The attached ordinance be adopted, effective August 1, 1985, amending Sec- tion 37-26.1 of Chapter 37 of the Fort Worth City Code to decrease front foot charges for water service connections from $12.60 per front foot to $11.80 per front foot and to decrease front foot charges for sanitary sewer service connections from $11.40 per front foot to $10.60 per front foot, 2. The Water and Sanitary Sewer Installation Policy be amended to incorporate these front foot charges and decrease the charge per foot of extensions constructed by City forces from $25.20 per foot to $23.60 per foot for water facilities and to decrease the charge of $22.80 per foot for sani- tary sewer facilities to $21.20 per foot, and 3. Such charges shall become effective August 1, 1985, and shall be incorpor- ated into all developer projects on which bids have not been received by that date and all City forces extension projects not authorized for con- struction by that date. Background According to guidelines established on July 28, 1977 (Informal Report No. 2947), new front foot charges for water and sanitary sewer services are to be revised semiannually. The next revision will take effect August 1, 1985. These new charges will be equal to 80% of the on-site front foot costs for water and sanitary sewer facilities constructed under contracts let from July 1, 1984, through June 30, 1985. These new charges have been computed, and compared with the current front foot charges as follows t Computation of Proposed Front Foot Charges Current Tota No. Cost $~~ Proposed Front Contract Front Per Front New Foot Price of Feet Front Foot Charge Facility Charge Facilities Served Foot Cost (Rounded) Water $12.60 $1,656,351 111,987 $14.79 $11.83 $11.80 Sanitary Sewer $11.40 $2,000,054 150,432 $13.29 $10.63 $10.60 Where City forces are utilized to construct extensions to serve new develop- ments or to serve single customers, the charge per foot of water or sewer extensions has been set at double the developer installed front foot charge. On this basis, the Community Facilities Policy should be amended to provide water and sewer extension charges for facilities constructed by City forces as fol- 1 ows. -~ DATE REFERENCE SUBJECT proposed Changes i n Front Foot PAGE 7/30/85 NUMBER G~6394 Charges for Water and Sanitary _ 2of_ 2 Current Charge Proposed Charge Facility Per Foot Per Foot Water $25.20 $23.60 Sanitary Sewer $22.80 $21.20 Similar recomputations and revisions of front foot and extension charges will be made each six months, with the next charges to be based on costs for the period of December 1, 1984, through November 30, 1985. It is necessary to provide for an orderly transition from the old front foot charges and the old extension charges to be effective August 1, 1985. The above recommendations have been prepared to meet that requirement. ~i f f~~J~l~i; Z.{~ ~~~~ ~ F'P t1s+~~ ~ v s• ! / ~T i ~~/ -- ~.,~. t:.i:y eUx~ Ate 0 t'.n~ SUBMITTED FOR THE ~ CITY MANAGER'S DISPOSITION BY COUNCIL: PROCESSED BY OFFICE BY ^ APPROVED ORIGINATING DEPARTMENT HEAD: Ri Chard SaWey ^ OTHER (DESCRIBE) CITY SECRETARY FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMAT~OaCl1 Nunn E T CT t 8220' A~i0~tSC6 Oi'~l~l~~?G2 ivG. .~ DATE CON A x ~~