Chapter A-6. Service Availability Charges  

RESOLVED, That pursuant to Chapter 231 of the Saint Paul Legislative Code, as amended, pertaining to sewer service charges and authorizing establishment of service availability charges (SAC) by council resolution, the council of the City of Saint Paul does hereby establish the amount and basis for such service availability charges to be levied and collected during the year 1973 and thereafter until modified by this council and which charges shall be imposed on each building or structure in the city for which a building permit is required. The charge for each building shall be equal to the number of units of sewage volume which it will discharge, multiplied by the sum of four hundred twenty-five dollars ($425.00). A unit of sewage volume shall be one hundred thousand (100,000) gallons per year and shall be assigned as follows:

a.

One SAC unit for each dwelling unit contained in structures intended or designed for not more than two (2) families.

b.

Eighty (80) percent of one SAC unit for each apartment or each dwelling unit and structures intended or designed for more than two (2) families.

c.

Eighty (80) percent of one SAC unit for each mobile home.

d.

Seventy-five (75) percent of one SAC unit equivalent for that type of housing for each dwelling unit built by the housing and redevelopment authority or for each housing unit built and subsidized under any federal program for low and moderate income housing.

e.

All commercial, institutional, industrial and other uses shall be assigned one SAC unit for each one hundred thousand (100,000) gallons per year of sewage flow or part thereof which the department of community services and/or the Metropolitan Waste Control Commission shall estimate will be discharged into the sewer system. The minimum capacity charge for such commercial, institutional, industrial and other uses shall be one SAC unit. To the extent possible, all allocations and charges for commercial and institutional buildings will be based on the standard number of units established for the use or uses by the Metropolitan Waste Control Commission, which allocations schedules shall be maintained on file in the office of the city clerk.

All determinations of SAC units for industrial users and uses not set forth on the above-referenced allocations shall be first made and determined by the Metropolitan Sewer Service Board and reviewed by the department of community services.

All determinations of SAC units for industrial users shall be subject to review and verification based on actual flow discharge from the structure after one year of operation to determine if the service availability charge assignment was accurate. This review shall be made by the Metropolitan Waste Control Commission and the department of community services one year after the date of the first discharge into the sewer system; and following such review and determination, an additional fee or refund shall be made by the Metropolitan Waste Control Commission; and be it

FURTHER RESOLVED, That the above service availability charges shall be paid to the City of Saint Paul as follows:

a.

Issuance of building permits:

1.

The service availability charges shall be paid prior to the issuance of all building permits to be issued for new construction from and after the effective date of this resolution.

2.

The service availability charges shall be paid prior to the issuance of all building permits issued from and after the effective date of this resolution for alterations and/or additions to existing structures, if the addition or alteration will require additional service availability charge units or reserve capacity. Such units shall be determined and charges made therefor in accordance with the charges set forth above.

b.

Issuance of sewer connection permits. A service availability charge shall be paid to the city at the time of issuance of all sewer connection permits for connections to be made on and after the effective date of this resolution, except in the following cases:

1.

The sewer connection permit is issued for a building for which a service availability charge was made at the time the building permit was issued.

2.

The sewer connection permit was issued for a building for which a building permit was issued prior to January 1, 1973, and the building was not served by an on-lot disposal system.

3.

The sewer connection permit was issued for a building for which a building permit was issued prior to January 1, 1973, and is served by an on-lot disposal system; then and in that event, the charge shall be fifty (50) percent of the required SAC unit charge if the connection permit is issued during the calendar year 1973; and be it

FURTHER RESOLVED, That all informational reports required by the department of community services shall be completed by applicants for permits. These reports shall be reviewed by the Metropolitan Waste Control Commission and if, upon reviewing the said reports, the commission determines that a greater number of SAC units is assignable to the structure, the applicant shall be required to pay this additional amount of cost to the Metropolitan Waste Control Commission; and be it

FURTHER RESOLVED, That any person applying for a building permit shall be entitled to receive SAC unit credits to be applied to the charges required by this resolution if a demolition permit had been issued for the same site during the five (5) calendar years preceding the calendar year in which the building permit is issued. The credits given shall be based on the immediately preceding use of the site, and the SAC credit shall be determined by the number of SAC units which the previous structure was discharging into the sewer system, but in no event shall the number of SAC unit credits exceed the number of new SAC unit charges for specific building or land use site.

(C.F. No. 260524, 1-23-73; C.F. No. 262908, 1-11-74; C.F. No. 264600, 11-20-74; C.F. No. 266392, 11-25-75; C.F. No. 268301, 12-21-76; C.F. No. 270181, 12-13-77; C.F. No. 272283, 12-28-78; C.F. No. 84-163, 2-9-84)