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HomeMy WebLinkAbout80-021 RESOLUTION NO. 80-~i A RESOLUTION AMENDING RESOLUTION NO 80-07 WHEREAS, the Mayor, Water Superintendent and Water Committee of the City Council of the City of Port Townsend have studied water supply and distribution as it exists and is projected within the corporate municipal boundaries, and in certain service areas outside the city limits, and WHEREAS, it is recognized that, for now, the City of Port Townsend is the only entity that can provide a temporary solution to the water problems outside the city limits, and WHEREAS, it is found by the City Council that the recommendations herein are sound, and that it is in the interests of the health and welfare of the people of the city and of the other existing users of city water, that these recommendations be adopted as a part of the policy governing water supply and distribution for the city, NOW THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the City Council of the City of Port Townsend as follows: First: The water supply and distribution system should be planned and developed on the assumption that the population to be served by the system within the corporate boundaries will eventually number 15,000 and that existing supplies of water will not permit expansion beyond the corporate limits and the existing service area hereinafter defined. Second: The service area outside the corporate limits will henceforth be limited to that area shown and illustrated in the "Official 1980 Water Service Area Map" annexed hereto, and be defined hereinafter as Primary Service Area and Secondary --1-- Service Area. Primary shall be that area within the boundaries defined by the Official 1980 Water Service Area Map, and Secon- dary shall be those areas outside boundaries of Primary Area abutting existing water mains on said map. Water service shall be provided only for actual consumption within said service areas as follows: A. PRIMARY SERVICE AREA shall receive water to properties as they correspond to county approved land use and as permitted according to paragraphs Fourth and Fifth. B SECONDARY SERVICE AREA shall receive water services excepting that where the service area is limited to one hundred (100) feet in width or less, abutting a water main, in which case a single domes%lc three-quarter (3/4) inch water tap may be allowed per parcel under the following circumstances: 1. A parcel is of record as of April 1, 1980, and fronts along a road in which a water main is installed, or, 2. Properties will not be serviced or allowed to be divided which would result in the piggybacking of lots, and PROVIDED that no addition or extension shall be made from such single domestic service and FURTHER PROVIDED that any addition or extension made or attemp- ed to be made from such single-domestiC service shall forthwith result in termination of all water service to the premises thus served. ! 3, No water tap will be approved or permitted except where a valid building permit subsists. Third: It is not anticipated that additional water sources will be developed by the City in the foreseeable future. Fourth: There shall be no extension of existing water mains except for the purpose of improving hydraulics within the primary service area EXCEPTING that the abuttment of two plats denies access out of a service area thereby creating a dead-end line, or the approved development of a cul-de-sac wherein only a dead-end line can provide service. These exceptions can receive water service provided accomodations for flushing and blow-off can be made to the satisfaction of the City Water Department stand- ards. Fifth: Excepting as hereinafter provided for pending plat approvals, no water tap will be approved or permitted within the service area herein defined except upon property where a valid building permit subsists. The revocation or expiration of such building permit shall result in automatic termination of any rights in taps authorized or installed, without reimbursement therefore. In cases wherein approval of a plat is sought from Jefferson County, within the defined primary service area, a commitment for one domestic service to each platted lot may be made, upon payment therefore of 1/10-of-the-established connection~fee for each-lot in the proposed plat, which sum shall not be refunded, but will be credited to the tap fees in the event of approval of the plat, PROVIDED that said commitment will terminate should the application for plat be denied or preliminary plat approval has expired. In no case shall the City co~mit to more than two years by virtue of extension of application. -3- Attest: City Clerk Appr6ved as to form: ~o-LI -4-