The need for sewer system improvements in the city is due to the changing pattern of land use and the erection of many multi-story buildings. The existing sewers in this city were constructed in the early years of the city and are no longer adequate to accommodate the increased flow of sewage from the areas being developed. The overload in the sewers is directly attributable to the volume of sewage generated and discharged by the larger buildings to the system. The purpose of this article is to establish a means of providing adequate sewers which are required for the development of the city, to establish a charge to be collected from the properties that propose to discharge to the public sewer quantities of sewage in excess of the quantity for which the system was designed, and to establish a fund in which these charges may be deposited and from which moneys will be available for the sanitary sewer program.
(Prior code § 9-901; Ord. 990 § 2, 1971)
This article shall apply to all new buildings, substantially altered buildings and changes in building occupancies after the effective date of the ordinance codified herein.
(Prior code § 9-911; Ord. 990 § 2, 1971)
A. 
All properties hereafter developed or redeveloped shall be credited for sewer connection fees equal to:
1. 
The fees for as many R-l lots of five thousand or more square feet, with forty feet minimum frontage, that can lawfully exist on such property; or
2. 
Allow the owner to adequately demonstrate to the city the legality of more R-l dwelling lots than are permitted under subsection 1, in conformance with the subdivision requirements and allocate credits on that basis.
B. 
All uses established after the effective date of the ordinance codified herein shall be credited with a sewer connection fee equal to that of the immediate prior use of the building or property as determined by the city engineer.
Interpretation of this section shall not be construed to allow credit for both the R-1 development and the immediate prior use of the building or property.
(Prior code § 9-912; Ord. 990 § 2, 1971; Ord. 1058 § 2, 1973)