Opinion ID: 2604738
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Heading Rank: 10

Heading: for an ordinance providing for the creation and collection of a service expansion fee as a condition of issuing building permits

Text: WHEREAS, the City of Cherry Hills Village, Colorado is experiencing a period of rapid growth and development and expects this situation to continue, and WHEREAS, in order to provide for expansion of all services of the City, it is, in the judgment of the City Council, necessary and appropriate to provide additional sources of revenue for the funding of expanding services, and WHEREAS, the period of one to two years elapses between the time that a building permit is issued and the City begins to receive property tax revenues. NOW, THEREFORE, THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CHERRY HILLS VILLAGE, COLORADO, ORDAINS: Section 1. Definitions. (a) Contractor. Any person, firm, partnership, joint venture, architect, or corporation, required to obtain a building permit pursuant to the Ordinances of the City of Cherry Hills Village, Colorado. (b) Floor Area. The area of each floor and basement included within the surrounding exterior walls of a building or portion thereof, measured from the inside of all exterior walls, excluding parking garages. (c) Building Inspector. The official charged with the administration and enforcement of the Uniform Building Code as adopted by the City of Cherry Hills Village, Colorado, or his regularly authorized deputy. (d) Building. Any enclosed structure without reference to use or occupancy for which a building permit is required by the Ordinances of the City of Cherry Hills Village, Colorado. Section 2. Payment of Services Expansion Fee. (a) Any owner, architect, contractor or other person applying for a building permit in accordance with the applicable Ordinances of the City of Cherry Hills Village, Colorado shall, as a condition to obtaining such building permit, pay to the City of Cherry Hills Village, Colorado a services expansion fee. 1) For any building constructed in R-1, R-2, R-3, R-4, R-5, F-1, RA-1, C-1 and C-2, zoned districts as established and defined in the Zoning Ordinance for the City of Cherry Hills Village, Colorado, a services expansion fee of forty cents (40¢) per square foot of total floor area, as herein defined, as the same may be determined from the plans and specifications submitted to the building official as part of the application for a building permit. 2) For any enclosed parking garage and recreational structure such as tennis courts and swimming pools constructed in R-1, R-2, R-3, R-4, R-5, F-1, RA-1, C-1 and C-2 zoning districts as the same are created, established and defined in the Zoning Ordinance for the City of Cherry Hills Village, Colorado a services expansion fee of fifteen cents (15¢) per square foot of total area, as the same may be determined from the plans and specifications submitted to the building official as part of the application for a building permit. (b) The service expansion fee shall apply to all new construction, all additions to existing structures and the substantial alterations or reconstruction of existing structures, except for churches, schools, governmental, municipal or quasi-municipal structures. (c) Services expansion fee shall be due and payable at the time the building permit is issued. Under no circumstances shall the building official issue a certificate of occupancy until and unless the services expansion fee, as calculated in this section, has been paid in full. Section 3. Effective Date The Service Expansion Fee provided for herein shall be due and payable with respect to all building permit applications filed with the City from and after the 1st day of November, 1979. Section 4. Severability. If any part, section, subsection, . . . sentence of [sic] phrase of this Ordinance is for any reason held to be invalid, such decision shall not effect [sic] the validity of the remaining portions of this Ordinance; and the City Council for the City of Cherry Hills Village, Colorado hereby declares it would have passed this Ordinance and each part, section, subsection, sentence, clause or phrases thereof, irrespective of the fact that any one or more parts, sections, subsections, sentences, clauses or phrases be declared invalid. Adopted as Ordinance No. 7, Series of 1979, by the City Council of the City of Cherry Hills Village, Colorado and signed and approved by its Mayor and presiding officer this 2nd day of October, 1979.