App. E.—THE WILLOWBROOK-GEORGIA-WOODVIEW NORTHEAST WATER AND SEWER EXTENSION AREA AND AN EXTENSION FEE FOR WATER MAINS AND SANITARY SEWERS

ORDINANCE No. 039-14

WHEREAS, some owners of . property within the Crestwood Acres subdivision, an unincorporated area of Linn County, had concerns regarding the continued availability of water from the aging private community well system serving them at the time, and concerns regarding remaining service life of their septic systems, and

WHEREAS, these owners requested the City of Cedar Rapids to install and provide water and sanitary sewer service for their homes, and

WHEREAS, the City of Cedar Rapids agreed to extend water mains and sanitary sewers to serve the properties provided that property owners annex to the City of Cedar Rapids, and pay a portion of the costs of extending such mains and sewers through an extension fee when they connect to the Cedar. Rapids mains and sewers, and

WHEREAS, an extension fee for these properties in the area was determined in 2011 to be $35.00 per foot of lot frontage for water and $35.00 per foot of lot frontage for sanitary sewer, with a maximum extension fee based on 200 feet of lot frontage, and

WHEREAS, the City of Cedar Rapids Public Works and Utilities Departments completed installation of water mains and sanitary sewers into the area in 2013 through project 625884-2012027-02, and

WHEREAS, as of March 1, 2014, owners of thirteen (13) of the twenty-three (23) lots within the area now served with water and sanitary sewer have signed annexation agreements, paid extension fees as established, and have connected to the water and sanitary sewer (Lots 2, 3, 12, 15, 25, 27, 30, 35 36, 38, 39, 40, and 41), and

WHEREAS, the Public Works and Utilities Departments have named the area served by the project as the "Willowbrook-Georgia-Woodview Northeast Water and Sanitary Sewer Extension Area," and

WHEREAS, the Public Works and Utilities Departments recommend adoption of an ordinance establishing the extension fees for the remaining lots within the Willowbrook-Georgia-Woodview Northeast Water and Sewer Extension Area,

NOW THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CEDAR RAPIDS, IOWA as follows:

1.

A Water and Sanitary Sewer Extension Area known as the 'WILLOWBROOK- GEORGIA-WOODVIEW NORTHEAST WATER AND SANITARY SEWER EXTENSION AREA' is hereby created (hereinafter referred to as 'Extension Area').

2.

The Extension Area includes twenty-three (23) lots identified as Crestview Acres, Linn County, Lots numbered 2, 3, 4, 11,12,15,16, 19, 20, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, and 35 thru 41 as identified on the attached exhibit 1.

3.

An extension fee is hereby established for lots within the Extension Area at $35.00 per foot of lot frontage for water and $35.00 per foot of lot frontage for sanitary sewer, with a maximum extension fee based on 200 feet of lot frontage. An extension fee for a lot is due and payable in full at the time water and/or sewer services are provided.

4.

The Extension Area, and extension fee, will remain in effect until all lots within the Extension Area are connected to City of Cedar Rapids water and sewer and annexed into the City of Cedar Rapids.

5.

Each section, paragraph, sentence, clause, and provision of the Ordinance is separable, and, if any provision is held unconstitutional or invalid for any reason, such decision shall not affect the remainder of this Ordinance nor any part thereof than that affected by such decision. All ordinances or parts of ordinances in conflict herewith are repealed. This Ordinance shall be in full force and effect from and after its passage and publication as provided by law.

6.

This ordinance will become part of the City of Cedar Rapids Municipal Code by inclusion in the same manner as are certain franchise and other ordinances.

Introduced this 22 ^nd day of April, 2014.

Passed this 27 ^th day of May, 2014.

	Ron. J. Corbett, Mayor

Attest:

Amy Stevenson, City Clerk

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