HomeMy WebLinkAbout2618 Amends 4.26 Transportation UT FeesORDINANCE NO.
AN ORDINANCE AMENDING CHAPTER 4.26 OF THE ASHLAND MUNICIPAL
CODE CONCERNING TRANSPORTATION UTILITY FEES.
THE PEOPLE OF THE CITY OF ASHLAND DO ORDAIN AS FOLLOWS:
SECTION 1. Section 4.26.020 of the Ashland Municipal Code is hereby
amended to read as follows:
"4.26.020 Establishment of Transportation Utility Fee. The city
Council may establish by resolution a transportation utility fee
to be paid by the users or occupants of structures within the
corporate limits of the City. Such fee shall be established in
such amounts which will provide sufficient funds to properly
maintain local streets and to provide for bikeways throughout the
City. Fees charged to individual structures and uses shall be
based upon a flat fee for single and multiple family dwellings
and based upon the number of parking spaces required by Chapter
18.92 of this Code for all non-residential uses. Said fees shall
also apply to the Downtown Overlay District defined in Section
18.32.050 as if off-street parking were required. The city
Council may, by resolution, establish such amount dependent upon
the use of the structure under existing zoning as such use
relates to the vehicular traffic which will be generated by the
use. Collection of the fee against each occupant shall be made
by a monthly charge to be added to the utility bill for such
occupant. The City Council may from time to time by resolution,
change the fee based upon revised estimates of the cost of
properly maintaining local streets and constructing bikeways,
revised categories of developed use, revised traffic generation
factors, and other factors."
SECTION 2. Section 4.26.030 of the Ashland Municipal Code is hereby
amended to read as follows:
"4.26.030 Transportation Utility Fee--Dedicated. All fees
collected by the City and such other monies as might be available
to the City for the purposes of this chapter shall be paid into
the Street Fund (Fund). Such revenues shall be used for the
purposes of the operation, administration, and maintenance of the
local street network of the City and for the construction of
bikeways. It shall not be necessary that the operations,
administration, and maintenance expenditures from the Fund
specifically relate to any particular use from which the fees for
said purposes were collected. To the extent that the fees
collected are insufficient to properly maintain local streets,
the cost of the same may be paid from such other city funds as
may be determined by the city Council, but the City Council may
order the reimbursement to such fund if additional fees are
thereafter collected. All funds collected pursuant to the
provisions of this chapter for operation, administration,
maintenance of streets, and for bikeway construction shall be
separately designated as such and shall be used solely for those
purposes, except that not more than one-sixth (1/6) of such funds
may be used for bikeway construction."
SECTION 3. Section 4.26.050 of the Ashland Municipal Code is hereby
amended to read as follows:
"4.26.050 Billing For Fee. The fee shall be billed and
collected with the monthly utility bill. All such bills shall be
rendered monthly by the Department of Finance and shall become
due and payable in accordance with the rules and regulations of
the Department of Finance pertaining to the collection of utility
fees, and the Director of Finance shall place all such fees so
collected into the Fund to be deposited and separately kept to be
used only for the purposes provided herein."
SECTION 4. Subsection A. of Section 4.26.070 of the Ashland Municipal
Code is hereby amended to read as follows:
"4.26.070 Administrative Review--Appeals. A. Any user or
occupant who disputes the amount of the fee, or disputes any
determination made by or on behalf of the City pursuant to and by
the authority of this chapter may petition the City Council for a
hearing on a revision or modification of such fee or
determination. Such petitions may be filed only once in
connection with any fee or determination, except upon a showing
of changed circumstances sufficient to justify the filing of such
additional petition."
The foregoing ordinance was first read by title only in accordance
with Article X, ~ection 2(C) of the City Charter on the ?g-~/~day of
~{~.'~ ~j. , 1991, and duly PASSED and ADOPTED this .~_Z~ day of
~{~.~ ~,/~ , 1991.
,
Nan E. F~anklin
City Recorder
SIGNED and APPROVED this
Mayor