15.36.010 Policies for expansion or extension of city water and/or sewer service outside corporate limits.
The city council adopts the following policies regarding the extension or expansion of water and/or sewer service outside the city’s corporate limits:
A. Historically, the city has contracted to provide retail water and/or sewer service directly to some customers outside the city’s corporate limits. The city does not intend to terminate any such water or sewer service that is in existence as of the ordinance codified in this chapter’s effective date. For purposes of this chapter, “in existence” means the property is currently receiving service and/or has a fully signed, valid, and recorded utility service zone agreement. However, the city will not modify, expand, or extend this existing direct retail water and/or sewer service except as provided in subsections (B) and (C) of this section and BMC 15.36.040.
B. The city will provide new direct retail water and/or sewer service to property within the city’s urban growth area only after the property annexes to the city. The city will not modify, extend, or expand direct retail water and/or sewer service in the city’s urban growth area without annexation unless the city council determines that such modification, extension, or expansion is necessary to protect basic public health and safety and the environment.
C. The city will not modify, extend, or expand direct retail water and/or sewer service outside the city’s urban growth area unless the city council determines that such modification, extension, or expansion is necessary to protect basic public health and safety and the environment, and the modification, extension, or expansion will not permit urban development.
D. If the public health and safety and the environment exception in subsection (B) or (C) of this section is met, the city will provide water and/or sewer service to the property from a city-owned main under the following conditions:
1. The property abuts a city water and/or sewer main, or the property owner can provide proof of legal access to the city main through an adjacent property or right-of-way;
2. For water service, the property owner demonstrates to public works that a line of less than four-inch diameter from the city water main can provide a minimum of 30 psi at normal peak flow to the property line of the requested service without aid of boosters or pumps, and the water meter is placed at the edge of the public right-of-way or at a location approved by public works;
3. For sewer service, the property owner demonstrates to public works that sewage from the property can be safely discharged to the city sewer main;
4. The property owner executes and records a city-approved agreement to use the city water and/or sewer service for the existing use of the property and not for a new or expanded use, and to not protest annexation or subdivide the property prior to annexation; and
5. If both water and sewer service are requested under subsection (B) or (C) of this section, each requested service independently meets the public health and safety and the environment exception.
E. The city has also contracted to provide wholesale water and/or sewer service to some districts and associations outside the city’s corporate limits. The city will continue to provide wholesale water and/or sewer service in accordance with the terms of these contracts. The city will not extend or expand wholesale city water and/or sewer service unless the city council determines that such extension or expansion meets the requirements of BMC 15.36.020 and 15.36.040. [Ord. 2019-02-003; Ord. 2011-05-025; Ord. 2004-09-063; Ord. 8982 § 70, 1981; Ord. 8728 § 3, 1979].