Ord 520 Amend Code Concerning Water Availability ChargeCITY OF MENDOTA HEIGHTS
DAKOTA COUNTY, MINNESOTA
ORDINANCE NO. 520
AN ORDINANCE AMENDING TITLE 10, CHAPTER 5, SECTION 3 OF THE CITY
CODE OF THE CITY OF MENDOTA HEIGHTS, MINNESOTA, DAKOTA COUNTY,
CONCERNING THE CITY WATER AVAILABILITY CHARGE
The City Council of the City of Mendota Heights, Minnesota, does hereby ordain:
Section 1.
Title 10-5-3 is hereby amended as follows:
10-5-3: WATER AVAILABILITY CHARGE:
A. Purpose And Intent: For the purpose of paying for the establishment, obtainment,
construction, reconstruction, repair, replacement, depreciation, enlargement, maintenance,
and improvement of the total municipal water system, including, but not limited to, the cost
of supply, storage, treatment, mains, trunks and other appurtenances, it is hereby determined
land connecting to the municipal water system, or additional living units constructed upon
B. Definitions:
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thereof are hereby established for determining the basic equivalent unit charge to be made:
1. Group One: Each detached dwelling single family living unit, each townhouse unit and each
duplex unit shall constitute one "basic equivalent unit".
2. Group Two: All other living units, including apartments, condominiums and any other attached
living units. Each such living units shall constitute eighty percent (80%) of the "basic equivalent
unit"
WATER AVAILABILITY CHARGE: The total amount of charges against a lot, piece or parcel of
connections and water main extensions), and said total "water availability charge" shall be in
accordance with the "basic equivalent unit" charge. (1981 Code 807 § 2; amd. Ord. 195, 1 19
2016)-
C. Charge Established: The water availability charge for any connection, whether direct or
indirect, hereafter made from a residentially zoned lot, piece or parcel of land shall be two
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issuance of a building permit or a water connection permit as the case may be. (1981 Code
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shall include and take into account changes in the estimated capital costs resulting from inflation
other items which have an effect upon the total cost of the municipa
time to time received in excess of amounts so pledged may be pledged by resolution of the
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improvements, as contemplated by this section, to the muni •
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This Ordinance shall be in effect from and after the date of its passage and publication.
Adopted and ordained into an Ordinance this twentieth day of March, 2018.
CITY COUNCIL
CITY OF MENDOTA HEIGHTS
Neil Garlock, Mayor
ATTEST
orri Smith, City Clerk
Ord. 520
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