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Not in itself. Treating and delivering water comes with high fixed overhead costs. Spreading those costs over a wider retail and wholesale base helps lower per capita costs and will help minimize the magnitude of future rate increases. 8. Eugene Code 9.8115 and 9.8121 seem to prohibit extensions of service out side of the Urban Growth Boundary. What would make the proposed sale to Veneta an exception? EWEB's sale of water to Veneta is not an exception to Sections 9.8115 to 9.8121 as those Sections do not apply to EWEB's sale of water to Veneta. Rather, those Sections apply to extensions of water (or sewer) service to individual properties. One of the approval criteria, for example, is that the “applicant has entered into an annexation agreement on forms provided by the city pertaining the property proposed to be served or will enter into such an annexation agreement as a condition of approval.” Wholesale delivery of water to another municipality couldn’t qualify under this provision because those properties could not annex to Eugene. Other requirements in those sections also assume that the extension of water (or sewer) service is for individual properties – for example, by requiring notice of the application to be provided to owners of properties located within 750 feet of property to be served. Section 2.212 also specifically notes that “extension of water service or sewer service” shall be processed as provided in section 9.8115 to 9.8121 of the code, but does not state that those provisions govern the extension of “water” outside city limits. Instead, the city attorney believes that section 2.212 requires that such an extension of “water” outside city limits (for example, to a special district or municipality) be approved by Council resolution. 3