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• DIVISION 3. PRO RATA FEES FOR WATER AND WASTEWATER LINE EXTENSIONS Sec. 86.009. Effective date. This division shall apply to water and wastewater line extensions for which application is made on or after October 1, 2010. Sec. 86.010. Pro rata fees to be established. (a) Nature of fee. A charge known as a "pro rata fee" may be assessed against all property abutting the easement or ubp lic right -of -way in which a water or wastewater line is located and that is eligible to be served by the line and for which a pro rata fee assessment has been requested and approved or imposed in accordance with this division The pro rata fees collected will be used to reimburse all or a portion of the eligible costs to construct the line. The pro rata fees collected will be paid to the owner or developer that constructed the line, subject to the limitations of this division and applicable law. If the city constructs or pays any portion of the costs to construct the line any pro rata fees collected will be paid to the city in proportion to its participation subject to the limitations of this division. (b) Calculation of pro rata fee. The total cost of the water or wastewater line • together with all appurtenances, as approved and determined by the director will be apportioned across the length of the line establishing a unit cost per linear foot The amount of the pro rata fee assessed against any property shall be the unit cost per linear foot multiplied by the number of linear feet of the front footage of the subject property that abuts the easement or public right -of -way associated with the water or wastewater line for which pro rata fees have been authorized. If the easement or public right -of -way associated with the line is abutted on two or more sides by tracts or parcels of land subject to the pro rata fee assessment the pro rata fee will be divided equally or proportionately between or among the abutting_ properties (1) Determining front footage: Front footage is measured along the length in feet along the property line of a tract or parcel of land which abuts the easement or public right -of -way associated with the line. If the property abuts more than one easement or right -of -way, associated with a line subject to reimbursement from pro rata fees, the property shall be subject to the pro rata fee assessment associated with the line to which a connection will be made. Thereafter, the property may be subject to additional assessments associated with any additional lines to which connections are made if any. (2) Alternate fee calculation. If the director finds that property subject to a pro rata fee assessment is so situated or shaped that applying the front footage calculation • above results in an inequitable allocation of the pro rata fee assessment relative to other property in the line's service area he or she may apply an alternate fee