Chapter 18.05
WATER AND SEWER CAPACITY ALLOCATION AND RESERVATION
Sections:
18.05.020 Priority uses defined.
18.05.030 Water capacity reserved for priority uses.
18.05.040 Sewer capacity reserved for priority uses.
18.05.010 Intent and purpose.
The intent and purpose of this water and sewer capacity allocation and reservation chapter is to ensure that the city shall reserve water supplies and sewage treatment capacity for land uses given priority by the land use plan.
A. In order to assure that sewer and water capacity is not consumed by other development permitted in the city, the city will monitor annually the number of priority and nonpriority water and sewer connections committed and available. (1996 zoning code (part)).
18.05.020 Priority uses defined.
A. Commercial Recreation. Visitor serving commercial uses and services; hotels; motels; restaurants; bars; equestrian supply stores; equestrian facilities; clubs; guest ranches and lodges; recreational vehicle campsites; art galleries; fishing and boating supplies; beaches; and golf courses and ancillary uses.
B. Public Recreation. Outdoor recreational uses such as parks, playgrounds, and ball fields for soccer, baseball, football, and similar activities; restaurant or food service stands, recreational vehicle parks, and retail concessions catering to visitors related to a permitted public recreational use; and information centers and structures ancillary to public recreation area maintenance; picnic facilities; and tent campsites.
C. Indoor Floriculture. Greenhouses used for the propagation and cultivation of plants of all types.
D. Outdoor Agriculture and Horticulture. Includes the propagation and cultivation of all field flowers, plants, trees and vegetables.
E. Extremely Low, Very Low, and Low Income Housing. Housing units for very low and low income housing units are considered a priority residential use; however, adequate infrastructure first must be reserved for all Coastal Act priority uses, as enumerated in LCP LUP tables 10.3 and 10.4. (Ord. C-2014-10 §3, 2014; Ord. C-15-10 §1(Exh. A(part)), 2010: 1996 zoning code (part)).
18.05.030 Water capacity reserved for priority uses.
The city council will support and require the reservation of water supplies for each priority land use in the land use plan. The planning and building department shall monitor the number of building permits issued annually by use category to ensure that the coastside county water district reserves sufficient capacity to serve priority uses as defined herein. Transfers of water reserved for priority uses to nonpriority uses shall be prohibited unless the city council determines that sufficient priority capacity is held in reservation to support the amount of priority uses provided for in the land use plan. (1996 zoning code (part)).
18.05.040 Sewer capacity reserved for priority uses.
The city shall reserve at least sixty thousand gallons per day of average dry weather flows (gpd/adwf) of its share of capacity in the existing sewer authority mid-coastside treatment plant for priority uses as defined herein and in the land use plan. The amount of sewage treatment capacity to be reserved for priority uses in the sewage treatment plant expansion shall be the same percentage of capacity for priority uses as that needed at build out. The city planning and building department shall monitor the number of building permits issued annually by use category to ensure that sewage treatment capacity for other uses does not encroach upon the capacity reserved for priority uses in the sewage treatment plant. (1996 zoning code (part)).