§ 27-73. Same—Fees generally; approval of plan.

Before any permit may be issued allowing connection to be made with the sanitary sewer main or building sewers or allowing excavation to be made in streets, alleys, or public grounds for the purpose of sewer connection in the city, or in the unincorporated area two miles beyond and adjacent to the corporate boundaries, the owner of the property so to be connected or excavated, or his/her agent, shall pay to the city a connection fee as described in the Master Fee Schedule.

The commercial, industrial and institutional lots shall be computed to the nearest 100th acre, but the fee shall in no event be less than one half of the amount as described in the Master Fee Schedule.

Commercial, industrial, and institutional acreage shall be based upon the entire commercial, industrial or institutional area which is the subject of the building permit including the developed land and the land immediately adjacent to the facility which forms the usable part of the property excluding undeveloped open space, parking areas, unsewered playgrounds, and unsewered sports activities areas. Subsequent buildings or additions to existing buildings shall be recomputed and an additional sewer connection fee shall be charged based upon the schedule of fees in the Master Fee Schedule.

As used herein, the expression institutional refers primarily to religious assemblies, facilities and public and private schools. Plans for the connection shall be approved by the building official.

Revenue generated from sewer connection fees shall be used to license sanitary sewer projects recommended in the Sanitary Sewer Master Plan for Zones 1 and 2, dated April 1988, and supplement report, dated March 1990.

(Ord. No. 2867, § 1, 12-11-1995; Ord. No. 3458, § 1, 3-24-2008; Ord. No. 3505, § 4, 3-9-2009)