1984-02-15 Public Hearing and Regular Meeting La Porte City Council

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ORDINANCE NO.~ AN ORDINANCE ESTABLISHING A SANITARY SEWER SYSTEM, CAPITAL RECOVERY FEE IN THE AREA ANNEXED TO THE CITY OF LA PORTE BY ORDINANCE NO. 1393, PASSED AND APPROVED DECEMBER 28, 1983; FINDING COMPLIANCE WITH THE OPEN MEETINGS LAW; AND PROVIDING AN EFFECTIVE DATE HEREOF. BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF LA PORTE: Section 1. The City of La Porte finally annexed, by Ordinance No. 1393, passed and approved December 29, 1983, an approximately 840 acre tract of land, which included the Spenwick Place Municipal Utility District and the College View Municipal Utility District. The area annexed, with the exception of existing connections in • Spenwick Place Municipal Utility District, is not connected to the City of La Porte's Central Sanitary Sewer Treatment facility. Connection to such facility has been recommended by the city's engineers, and will require construction of a trunk line, pumps and lift stations, and enlargement of the treatment capacity of the City's Central Sanitary Sewer Treatment facility. The purpose of this ordinance is to establish a Sanitary Sewer Capital Cost Recovery Fee, to partially recover the City's projected costs for such improvements. section 2. From and after the effective date of this ordinance, their shall be levied and assessed upon each building site, within the territory annexed by City of La Porte Ordinance No. 1393, at • the time of issuance of a City of La Porte Building permit, a Sanitary Sewer Capital Cost Recovery fee, as follows: A. On each single family residence, a fee of $1,000. B. On each unit of a duplex, four-plex, or mult.- family residence, a fee of $750. C. On all other new construction, a fee based on a pro-rata equivalence of the above fees, as determined by the City. Section 3. All Sanitary Sewer Capital Cost 1~.ecovery Fees shall be deposited in the City of La Porte Water & Sewer Improvement • Fund. *The recommended fee on mobile home parks shall be $750.00 per unit.