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ORDINANCE NO. 19173 AN ORDINANCE REGARDING SYSTEMS DEVELOPMENT CHARGES; AMENDING SECTIONS 1.010 AND 1.065 OF THE EUGENE CODE, 1911; ADDING SECTIONS 7.401, 1.100, 7.702, 1.705, 1.110, 1.115, 7.120, 1.125, 1.730, 1.135, AND 1.740 TO THAT CODE; REPEALING SUBSECTION 1.1152}fib}5.d, SECTIONS 1.245, 1.215, 7.211, 1.219, 1.281, 1.283, AND SECTION 1.285 OF THAT CODE; AND DECLARING AN EMERGENCY. THE CITY OF EUGENE DOES ORDAIN AS FOLIOwS:. Section 1. The Counci 1 hereby finds: A. Section 4 of the Eugene Charter of 1976, ORS 223.208 and 223.297 through 223.314 grant the City the authority to impose system development charges SDC} to equitably spread the cost of essential capital improvements to new development. B. Given the inability of the population and the geographic size of the City, most capital improvement projects benefit new level apment regardless of where in the City it occurs. The entire community's health may be affected if adequately sized sanitary and storm sewers are not provided in all loca- t~ ons of the , C~ ty and , ~ is envi raps, Except as modified i n Fi ndi ng D bel ow, development ~ s occurr~ ng throughout the entire City and no single area of the City i s experiencing such a hi gh 1 evel of new development acti of ty to require SCD revenue from development i n one area be dedicated to that same area.. It i s more cost efficient to use SDC revenue from new development i n the entire community to finance the growth related portion of capital improvements based upon acity-wide priority rather than to hold the SDC revenue generated in one area of the community for improvements just in that area. C. The increase in administrative cast to account for receipt and expen- diture of SCD revenues based upon geographic areas of the City rather than on a c i ty-wide basis would divert revenue from needed capital improvement pro - jects . Except as stated i n F i ndi ng D bel ow, the benefit of minimizing admi n- istrati ve costs attributable to the system development charge outweighs the benefit of allocating SDC revenues and expenditures based upon geograph i c areas. D. In an endeavor to equitably spread the cost of providing sanitary sewer service between new development within the corporate 1 i mi is of the City and existing and new development i n the uni ncorparated areas of River Road and Santa Clara, the system development charge established for sanitary sewers i n River Road and Santa G1 ara shall recover the cost of capital i m- provements constructed to serve those areas, Ta the extent possible the methodology for sanitary sewers shall take into account the necessity of segregate ng such 5DC revenue, and expenditures. However, nathi ng i n thi s F~nd~ng sha11 preclude the City from advancing the cost of constructing sani- Ordinance - 1