HomeMy WebLinkAbout1027 Amending Sections 1.08.050 & 13.08.010 Municipal Code Water Dedication Requirements for Residential Dwelling Unit 05-24-2023ORDINANCE NO. 1027
AN ORDINANCE OF THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE TOWN OF FIRESTONE, COLORADO,
AMENDING SECTIONS 1.08.050 AND 13.08.010 OF THE FIRESTONE MUNICIPAL CODE
REGARDING WATER DEDICATION REQUIREMENTS FOR RESIDENTIAL DWELLING UNITS
WHEREAS, to ensure that the Town of Firestone's (Town") water dedication requirements are
appropriate for the various residential units offered by developers, the Town had its water engineers Leonard Rice
Consultant Water Engineers ("LRE Water") analyze the matter to determine the appropriate dedication
requirements; and
WHEREAS, upon completion of its work, LRE Water recommended that the dedication requirements for
certain Single Family Dwellings and Multi -Family Dwelling Accounts be amended.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE TOWN OF
FIRESTONE, COLORADO:
Section 1. Section 1.08.050 A. 1. of the Firestone Municipal Code is amended to provide as follows:
A. Residential.
I. Single Family Detached Dwellings. The landowner, its successors or assigns in interest shall dedicate
to the town for each single family detached dwelling lot the amount of water, in acre-feet, as set forth in
the following table:
Section 2. Section 1.08.050 A. 1. c. of the Firestone Municipal Code is enacted to provide as
follows:
C. For each individual platted lot that is 2,500 square feet or less, and that is for a single family
attached dwelling in a building of two or more attached units per building, the landowner, its successors
or assigns in interest shall dedicate to the town for each single family attached dwelling lot: 0.160 acre-
feet.
Section 3. Section 1.08.050 A. 2., and subsection A.2.a., of the Firestone Municipal Code are
enacted to provide as follows:
Living Units Per Multi -Family
Dwelling
Water Dedication Requirement (acre -
feet) (Per Living Unit
2 to 4 units
0.160
5 units or more
0.112
a. The above table is for units of three bedrooms or less. If a unit of four or more bedrooms is
proposed, an increased dedication requirement may be specified for each unit.
Section 4. Section 13.08,010 B.1. of the Firestone Municipal Code is amended to provide as
follows:
For each single-family detached residential dwelling lot, the amount of water, in acre-feet, as set
forth in the following table.
Section 5. Section 13.08.010 B. 1. c. of the Firestone Municipal Code is enacted to provide as
follows:
C. For each individual platted lot that is 2500 square feet or less, and that is for a single family
attached dwelling in a building of two or more attached units per building, the landowner, its successors
or assigns in interest shall dedicate to the town for each single family attached dwelling lot: 0.160 acre-
feet.
Section 6. Section 13.08.010 B. 1.5. of the Firestone Municipal Code is repealed in its entirety and
reenacted and a new subsection B.1.5 a. is enacted to provide:
Living Units Per Multi -Family
Dwelling
Water Dedication Requirement (acre -
feet) (Per Living Unit
2 to 4 units
0.160
5 units or more
0.112
a. The above table is for units of three bedrooms or less. If a unit of four or more bedrooms is
proposed, an increased dedication requirement may be specified for each unit.
Section 7. If any article, section, paragraph, sentence, clause, or phrase of this ordinance is held to
be unconstitutional or invalid for any reason, such decision shall not affect the validity or constitutionality of the
remaining portions of this ordinance. The Board of Trustees hereby declare it would have passed this ordinance
and each part or parts hereof irrespective of the fact that any one part or parts be declared unconstitutional or
invalid.
Section 8. Violations of this ordinance shall be punishable in accordance with Section 1.16.010 of the
Municipal Code of the Town of Firestone, Colorado.
Section 9. All other ordinances or portions thereof inconsistent or conflicting with this ordinance or
any portion hereof are hereby repealed to the extent of such inconsistency or conflict.
INTRODUCED, READ, ADOPTED, APPROVED, AND ORDERED PUBLISHED IN
FULL this 24 h day of May, 2023.
SEAL,
ATTEST: oG;
Kn ti K. T3ash6i, CMC, Town Clerk
TO ZF FIRES ONE, COLORADO
Drew Alan Peterson, Mayor
APPROVE AS T
William P. Hayashi, Town Attorney
CONNECTING WATER TO LIFE
Memorandum
To: Julie Pasillas, Director of Public Works
From: Gregg S. Ten Eyck, P.E.
Copy to: A.J. Krieger, Town Manager
Reviewed by: Brett Gracely, P.E.
Date: April 26, 2023
Project: 1527T W F02-23
Subject: Amendment to Water Dedication
Townhomes and Multi -Family Accounts
Background
Requirements: Single Family
The current Town of Firestone Municipal Code at 1.08.050 and at 13.08.010 specifies water
dedication requirements for a single-family residential property based on lot size and for a multi-
family building based on the number of units in the building.
The water dedication requirement for a townhome, located on its own platted lot, is currently
determined using the table at 1.08.050.A.1 of the Municipal Code. The smallest lot size in that
table is 0 to 4,500 square feet.
Many developers are apparently proposing single-family residential platted lots that are
townhomes (two or more dwelling units that are attached yet built on separate platted lots).
There are currently approximately 40 townhome properties in Firestone on lots less than 2,500
square feet, and the Town has three years of water use data for most of those properties. This
memorandum is to recommend that the Municipal Code be amended with the addition of a
residential-townhome category, with an appropriate water dedication requirement.
Multi -family accounts have one water meter serving all the units in the building. Water dedication
requirements are currently determined using the table at 1.08.050.A.2. Of the current 41 multi-
family accounts, five accounts have 6 to 8 units per building, and the other 36 accounts have 16
to 24 units per building.
Water dedication requirements are based on the amount of raw water to be delivered to the
water treatment plant, which requires about 24 percent more water than is measured at an
individual water meter. This is because we must include the 20 percent surcharge as required
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by the Central Weld County Water District. The St Vrain Water Treatment Plant is beginning
operation this year, and therefore has no operational history. The planned loss of reverse
osmosis reject water to the deep injection well is estimated at 10 to 20 percent of the raw water
delivered for treatment. In addition, the dedication requirement accounts for an estimated 3
percent system loss in the Town's distribution system. For example, to deliver 100,000 gallons
at the individual meter, 103,100 gallons of treated water must be delivered to the distribution
system. Multiplying 103,100 times 1.20 to account for the surcharge or reverse osmosis reject
water results in 123,700 gallons of raw water required to be delivered to the treatment plant. For
calculating the recommended water dedication amounts, this has been rounded to a multiplier of
1.24, or 124,000 gallons in this example.
Recommendations
Single -Family Residential
A distinction between the water dedication requirements for single-family residential detached
lots and single-family attached dwelling lots is recommended.
To effect this recommendation, there will need to be changes to Chapter 1.08 and Chapter
13.08 of the Municipal Code. First, the following text will replace the current language at
1.08.050.A.1, inserting the word "Detached:'
A. Residential
1. Single Family Detached. The landowner, its successors or assigns in interest shall dedicate to the
Town for each single-family residential dwelling lot the amount of water, in acre-feet, as set forth in
the following table:
Second: the following text will replace the current language at 13.08.010.B.1, inserting the word
"detached."
1. For each single-family detached residential dwelling lot, the amount of water, in acre-feet, as
set forth in the following table.
Finally, the following language will be added in a new section 1.08.050.A.1.c. and a new section
in 13.08.010.B.i.c.
c. For each individual platted lot that is 2,500a square feet or less, and that is for a single-family
attached dwelling in a building of two or more attached units per building, the landowner, its
successors or assigns in interest shall dedicate to the Town for each single-family residential
townhome dwelling lot: 0.160 acre-feet.
Multi -Family Residential
Our recommendation, based on a review of three years of multi -family metered water delivery
data, is that there be two categories for multi -family units: 2 to 4 units and 5 units and greater.
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April 26, 2023
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The recommendation for the buildings with 2 to 4 units is 0.160 acre-feet per unit. The current
water dedication requirement for 2 to 4 units is 0.336 acre-feet per unit.
The recommended water dedication requirement per unit for buildings with 5 or more units is
0.112 acre-feet per unit. The current water dedication requirements are 0.306 acre-feet per unit
for buildings with 5 to 12 units, and 0.234 acre-feet per unit for buildings with more than 12 units.
Note that these dedication amounts are for units of 3 bedrooms or less; if units of 4 or more
bedrooms are proposed, an increased dedication requirement may be specified.
To affect this recommendation there need to be changes to the Municipal Code, again in
Chapters 1.08 and 13.08. First, the following table will replace the table at 1.08.050.A.2.
Second, a new section, 1.08.050.A.2.a is added to the Code, as shown below.
Living Units Per Multi -Family Dwelling
Water Dedication
Requirement
(acre feet)
(Per Living Unit)
2 to 4 Units
0.160
5 Units or more
0.112
a. The above table is for units of three bedrooms or less. If a unit of four or more bedrooms is
proposed, an increased dedication requirement may be specified for each unit.
Third, the same table as 1.08.050.A.2 will replace the table at 13.08.010.B.1.5. Finally, a new
section, 13.08.010.B.1.5.a. is created, with the same language as 1.08.050.A.
Living Units Per Multi -Family Dwelling
Water Dedication
Requirement
(acre-feet)
(Per Living Unit)
2 to 4 Units
0.160
5 Units or more
0.112
a. The above table is for units of three bedrooms or less. If a unit of four or more bedrooms is
proposed, an increased dedication requirement may be specified for each unit.
Data Reviewed
Townhomes
We reviewed metered water use data for 2020, 2021 and 2022 for single family residential
accounts in Firestone that serve properties in the Cimarron Pointe subdivision. These platted
lots range from 943 square feet to 2,219 square feet. Based on review of townhomes currently
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existing in Firestone, townhome water accounts generally have very little potential for outside
water use than accounts on larger lots. Townhome lots are shown on Figure 1, which was
created using the Weld County Property Portal.
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All of the 38 water accounts had monthly meter data in each of the 36 months in the 2020
through 2022 period, so all 38 accounts were reviewed. We also reviewed the data to see if lot
size was a reliable indicator of annual water use. It was not —correlation coefficients of water
use vs. lot size were in the range of 0.01 to 0.03, which is indicates very little or no correlation
between lot size and annual water use. Therefore, we are only recommending one new water
dedication amount for lots that are less than 2,501 square feeta. Figure 3 shows annual water
use for the 38 townhome accounts, sorted by the 3-year average annual use. The square
footage for each account is also shown.
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Figure 2 shows annual metered water use versus platted lot size.
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Figure 3 shows the annual metered water use for the 38 townhome accounts for years 2020, 2021, and
2022. The accounts are sorted from left to right from lowest 3-year average annual water use to the
highest use. The 751h percentile line is shown: 25 percent of the accounts used more than that amount
of water, and this is the basis for our recommendation.
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April 26, 2023
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Figure 3
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Account: Sorted by 3-year Average Annual Water Use
—2020 —2021 —2022 —75th Percentile ♦ Square Feet
The number of accounts analyzed and the average annual usage for the 3-year period are
shown in the following table. The proposed dedication requirement is also shown:
Number of
751h Percentile,
Proposed
Proposed
Accounts:
Annual
Dedication
Dedication
Years
less than
Average Use,
Requirement,
Requirement, (at
2,501 sf
gallons
(at individual
individual meter)
metergallons
acre-feet
2020
2021
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50,600
0.16
2022
11. Multi -Family
We reviewed water delivery data from meters on multi -family properties in Firestone for 2020, 2021 and
2022. There were 793 apartments in 40 accounts from multi -family buildings in 2020, and 817
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apartments in 41 accounts in 2021 and 2022. None of the existing multi -family buildings have less than
6 units.
We converted annual use per building for each account to annual use per unit. Figure 4 shows the
annual water use per unit for the 41 multi -family accounts, again sorted from lowest use per unit on the
left to highest use per unit on the right. Also plotted on the figure is the number of units in the building for
each account. There appears to be little correlation between the number of units in a multi -family
building and annual use per unit, hence the recommendation of one water dedication requirement per
unit for all multi -family accounts with six or more units.
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Account: Sorted by 3-year Average Annual Water Use
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The number of multi -family accounts analyzed and the average annual usage per unit for the 3-
year period are shown in the following table. The proposed dedication requirement is also
shown:
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75t^
Proposed
Proposed
Dedication
Percentile,
Dedication
Requirement, (at
Years
Number of
Annual
Requirement,
individual
Accounts
Average Use
(at individual
meter),
Per Unit,
meter),
gallons
gallons
acre-feet
2020
40
2021
41
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36,435
0.112
2022
41
a Water dedication requirements for a lot size greater than 2,500 square feet where a Single -Family
Attached Dwelling is proposed, e.g., a paired home or duplex on a corner lot, may be decided on a case -
by -case basis.
CONNECTING WATER TO LIFE
Memorandum
To: Julie Pasillas, Director of Public Works
From: Gregg S. Ten Eyck, P.E.
Copy to: A.J. Krieger, Town Manager
Reviewed by: Brett Gracely, P.E.
Date: April 26, 2023
Project: 1527T W F02-23
Subject: Amendment to Water Dedication
Townhomes and Multi -Family Accounts
Background
Requirements: Single Family
The current Town of Firestone Municipal Code at 1.08.050 and at 13.08.010 specifies water
dedication requirements for a single-family residential property based on lot size and for a multi-
family building based on the number of units in the building.
The water dedication requirement for a townhome, located on its own platted lot, is currently
determined using the table at 1.08.050.A.1 of the Municipal Code. The smallest lot size in that
table is 0 to 4,500 square feet.
Many developers are apparently proposing single-family residential platted lots that are
townhomes (two or more dwelling units that are attached yet built on separate platted lots).
There are currently approximately 40 townhome properties in Firestone on lots less than 2,500
square feet, and the Town has three years of water use data for most of those properties. This
memorandum is to recommend that the Municipal Code be amended with the addition of a
residential-townhome category, with an appropriate water dedication requirement.
Multi -family accounts have one water meter serving all the units in the building. Water dedication
requirements are currently determined using the table at 1.08.050.A.2. Of the current 41 multi-
family accounts, five accounts have 6 to 8 units per building, and the other 36 accounts have 16
to 24 units per building.
Water dedication requirements are based on the amount of raw water to be delivered to the
water treatment plant, which requires about 24 percent more water than is measured at an
individual water meter. This is because we must include the 20 percent surcharge as required
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by the Central Weld County Water District. The St Vrain Water Treatment Plant is beginning
operation this year, and therefore has no operational history. The planned loss of reverse
osmosis reject water to the deep injection well is estimated at 10 to 20 percent of the raw water
delivered for treatment. In addition, the dedication requirement accounts for an estimated 3
percent system loss in the Town's distribution system. For example, to deliver 100,000 gallons
at the individual meter, 103,100 gallons of treated water must be delivered to the distribution
system. Multiplying 103,100 times 1.20 to account for the surcharge or reverse osmosis reject
water results in 123,700 gallons of raw water required to be delivered to the treatment plant. For
calculating the recommended water dedication amounts, this has been rounded to a multiplier of
1.24, or 124,000 gallons in this example.
Recommendations
Single -Family Residential
A distinction between the water dedication requirements for single-family residential detached
lots and single-family attached dwelling lots is recommended.
To effect this recommendation, there will need to be changes to Chapter 1.08 and Chapter
13.08 of the Municipal Code. First, the following text will replace the current language at
1.08.050.A.1, inserting the word "Detached."
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1. Single Family Detached. The landowner, its successors or assigns in interest shall dedicate to the
Town for each single-family residential dwelling lot the amount of water, in acre-feet, as set forth in
the following table:
Second: the following text will replace the current language at 13.08.010.B.1, inserting the word
"detached."
1. For each single-family detached residential dwelling lot, the amount of water, in acre-feet, as
set forth in the following table.
Finally, the following language will be added in a new section 1.08.050.A.1.c. and a new section
in 13.08.010.B.1.c.
c. For each individual platted lot that is 2,500a square feet or less, and that is for a single-family
attached dwelling in a building of two or more attached units per building, the landowner, its
successors or assigns in interest shall dedicate to the Town for each single-family residential
townhome dwelling lot: 0.160 acre-feet.
Multi -Family Residential
Our recommendation, based on a review of three years of multi -family metered water delivery
data, is that there be two categories for multi -family units: 2 to 4 units and 5 units and greater.
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The recommendation for the buildings with 2 to 4 units is 0.160 acre-feet per unit. The current
water dedication requirement for 2 to 4 units is 0.336 acre-feet per unit.
The recommended water dedication requirement per unit for buildings with 5 or more units is
0.112 acre-feet per unit. The current water dedication requirements are 0.306 acre-feet per unit
for buildings with 5 to 12 units, and 0.234 acre-feet per unit for buildings with more than 12 units.
Note that these dedication amounts are for units of 3 bedrooms or less; if units of 4 or more
bedrooms are proposed, an increased dedication requirement may be specified.
To affect this recommendation there need to be changes to the Municipal Code, again in
Chapters 1.08 and 13.08. First, the following table will replace the table at 1.08.050.A.2.
Second, a new section, 1.08.050.A.2.a is added to the Code, as shown below.
Living Units Per Multi -Family Dwelling
Water Dedication
Requirement
(acre-feet)
(Per Living Unit)
2 to 4 Units
0.160
5 Units or more
0.112
a. The above table is for units of three bedrooms or less. If a unit of four or more bedrooms is
proposed, an increased dedication requirement may be specified for each unit.
Third, the same table as 1.08.050.A.2 will replace the table at 13.08.010.B.1.5. Finally, a new
section, 13.08.010.B.1.5.a. is created, with the same language as 1.08.050.A.
Living Units Per Multi -Family Dwelling
Water Dedication
Requirement
(acre-feet)
(Per Living Unit)
2 to 4 Units
0.160
5 Units or more
0.112
a. The above table is for units of three bedrooms or less. If a unit of four or more bedrooms is
proposed, an increased dedication requirement may be specified for each unit.
Data Reviewed
Townhomes
We reviewed metered water use data for 2020, 2021 and 2022 for single family residential
accounts in Firestone that serve properties in the Cimarron Pointe subdivision. These platted
lots range from 943 square feet to 2,219 square feet. Based on review of townhomes currently
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existing in Firestone, townhome water accounts generally have very little potential for outside
water use than accounts on larger lots. Townhome lots are shown on Figure 1, which was
created using the Weld County Property Portal.
Figure 1
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All of the 38 water accounts had monthly meter data in each of the 36 months in the 2020
through 2022 period, so all 38 accounts were reviewed. We also reviewed the data to see if lot
size was a reliable indicator of annual water use. It was not —correlation coefficients of water
use vs. lot size were in the range of 0.01 to 0.03, which is indicates very little or no correlation
between lot size and annual water use. Therefore, we are only recommending one new water
dedication amount for lots that are less than 2,501 square feeta. Figure 3 shows annual water
use for the 38 townhome accounts, sorted by the 3-year average annual use. The square
footage for each account is also shown.
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April 26, 2023
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Figure 2 shows annual metered water use versus platted lot size.
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Figure 3 shows the annual metered water use for the 38 townhome accounts for years 2020, 2021, and
2022. The accounts are sorted from left to right from lowest 3-year average annual water use to the
highest use. The 751h percentile line is shown: 25 percent of the accounts used more than that amount
of water, and this is the basis for our recommendation.
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April 26, 2023
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Figure 3
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—2020
—2021 —2022 —75th Percentile ♦ Square Feet
The number of accounts analyzed and the average annual usage for the 3-year period are
shown in the following table. The proposed dedication requirement is also shown:
Number of
751^ Percentile,
Proposed
Dedication
Proposed
Dedication
Years
Accounts:
Annual
Requirement,
Requirement, (at
less than
Average Use,
(at individual
individual meter)
2, sf
gallons
metergallons
acre-feet
2020
2021
38
40,806
50,600
0.16
2022
II. Multi -Family
We reviewed water delivery data from meters on multi -family properties in Firestone for 2020, 2021 and
2022. There were 793 apartments in 40 accounts from multi -family buildings in 2020, and 817
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apartments in 41 accounts in 2021 and 2022. None of the existing multi -family buildings have less than
6 units.
We converted annual use per building for each account to annual use per unit. Figure 4 shows the
annual water use per unit for the 41 multi -family accounts, again sorted from lowest use per unit on the
left to highest use per unit on the right. Also plotted on the figure is the number of units in the building for
each account. There appears to be little correlation between the number of units in a multi -family
building and annual use per unit, hence the recommendation of one water dedication requirement per
unit for all multi -family accounts with six or more units.
Figure 4
Multi -Family: Annual Water Use per Unit, gallons
45,000
40,000
35,000
30,000
c 25.000
O
l7 20.000
15.000
30
10,000
5,000
0
1 3 '.1 17 19 ?9 31 33 35 37 39
Account: Sorted by 3-year Average Annual Water Use
_2020 - 1. • �, .1 I ,i, in Building
The number of multi -family accounts analyzed and the average annual usage per unit for the 3-
year period are shown in the following table. The proposed dedication requirement is also
shown:
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75t"
Proposed
Proposed
Dedication
Percentile,
Dedication
Requirement, (at
Years
Number of
Annual
Requirement,
individual
Accounts
Average Use
(at individual
meter),
Per Unit,
meter),
gallons
gallons
acre-feet
2020
40
2021
41
29,380
36,435
0.112
2022
41
2 Water dedication requirements for a lot size greater than 2,500 square feet where a Single -Family
Attached Dwelling is proposed, e.g., a paired home or duplex on a corner lot, may be decided on a case -
by -case basis.