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As used in this chapter:

“Capital facilities plan” means the plan for water and sewer infrastructure as required by U.C.A. Section 11-36-201.

“City” means the City of Moab.

“Connection fee” means the costs reasonably incurred by the City, or any authorized contractor, for labor, equipment, materials, and like expenses associated with the installation and connection of municipal utility services such as water and wastewater.

“Council” means the Moab City Council.

“Development” means the construction of a building, dwelling, structure, or industrial facility; the installation of a mobile or modular home; the construction of a campground, recreational vehicle, or mobile home park; the subdivision of land; an application for a planned unit development “PUD”; a conditional use permit application; a building permit application; or any change in the use of land, buildings, or structures that creates additional demand or impacts upon public facilities.

“Encumbered” or “encumbrance” means the pledging by written instrument of funds or moneys collected pursuant to this chapter for the payment of costs of construction or debt service of system improvements.

“Equivalent residential unit” or “ERU” means the amount of water or wastewater required or generated by a typical single residential unit, as determined by the City based upon accepted engineering standards and specifications.

“Impact fee” means a one-time payment of money imposed by the City on development activity pursuant to this chapter as a condition precedent to the granting of development approval and/or a building permit in order to pay for constructed and planned water and sewer facilities. “Impact fee” does not mean a building permit fee, a business license fee, a connection fee, sales tax, special assessments, or other such charges.

“Policy resolution” means a resolution, duly enacted by the City Council, identifying with reasonable detail types of system improvements to be constructed in the future in specified geographic areas of the City and surrounding lands.

“Project improvements” means those improvements to realty constructed in the development of a project and which primarily benefit and provide service to that lot, development, or use, as opposed to neighboring parcels or other uses. “Project improvements” may include water and sewer infrastructure required to be dedicated to the City as a condition for development approval.

“Qualifying improvements” means system improvements that are planned by the City as part of a capital facilities plan or policy resolution approved by the City Council and which are required to be constructed by a developer as a condition for development approval.

“System improvements” means existing public facilities that are designed to provide service to service areas within the community at large and planned future public facilities identified in a capital facilities plan or policy resolution that are intended to provide service to the community at large, as opposed to individual lots, developments, or uses. (Ord. 98-13 (part), 1998)