ORD 2558 ORDINANCE NO .
AN ORDINANCE permitting the City to enter into Development
Agreements for the reservation of water capacity in the municipal
water system when such agreement will promote the public good
and general welfare .
The Council of the City of Camas do ordain as follows :
Section I
The Council makes the following findings :
A . The City operates a municipal water system providing water to residential ,
commercial , industrial and public customers .
B . The City has adopted capital facility plans and water utility plans that project the
anticipated capacity requirements and infrastructure needs resulting from new development .
C . The anticipated capacity requirements for water may require the construction of
additional infrastructure including new transmission lines , pump stations , and treatment and
storage facilities .
D . There may be insufficient capacity in the water system to serve new development
until new infrastructure is designed and constructed .
E . The City Council desires to adopt a process whereby water capacity may be reserved
by prospective customers if such reservation of capacity will promote the public good and benefit
the general welfare . Examples of promoting the public good and benefiting the general welfare
include , but are not limited to , the siting of public schools or other public facilities , and industrial
and commercial development that provides some combination of increased tax base , additional
employment opportunities , or economic diversification .
Section II
There is hereby added to the Camas Municipal Code a new section to provide as follows :
Section 13 . 12 . 085 Reservation of Water Capacity .
(A) The City Council may enter into a Development Agreement pursuant to
RCW 36 . 70 (b ) . 170 whereby it agrees to set aside and reserve capacity in the
municipal water system for a prospective development . Such Development
if the City Council makes a specific
Agreement shall be permitted only
finding that the public good and general welfare will be benefited by such
Agreement .
(B ) Any Development Agreement entered into under this section shall
require the prepayment to the City of water system development charges
prior to the Agreement being effective , and shall further require that at the
time of connection the City shall be paid the difference between the amount
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of the water system development charge that would be due under the rates in
effect at the time of connection and the amount of the water system
development charge prepaid at the time of the Development Agreement . In
no event shall the City be required to refund any prepaid water system
development charge .
Section III
This Ordinance shall take force and be in effect five ( 5 ) days from and after its
publication according to law .
PASSED BY the Council and APPROVED by the Mayor this ��y day of
cz 2009 .
SIGNED .
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Mayor
ATTEST :
Clerk
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