Purpose and authority.
Cape Coral Code of Ordinances § 2-21
in effect§ 2-21 - Purpose and authority.
(a) This division establishes procedures to facilitate the orderly expansion of the city's capital needs for utility facilities and provides alternatives for funding of the capital needs by those benefitting thereby imposing a charge which is reasonable commensurate with the burden currently imposed or reasonably anticipated to be imposed on those systems.
(b) The city has determined that certain necessary expansions will have to be undertaken in order to provide for the influx of new residents anticipated to occur in future years. In order to finance these necessary capital improvements, several combined methods of financing will be necessary, one of which is a utility capital expansion fee.
(c) The amount of this utility capital expansion fee has been determined on the recommendation of the city's staff and as distilled through the process of public meetings. The City Council finds that after an examination of all methods of financing, the utility capital expansion fee is a necessary integral part of the financing of future utility expansion in the city at this time, and that this fee should be reviewed on a periodic basis in order to ensure that it continues to reflect a charge that is reasonably commensurate with the burden currently imposed or reasonably anticipated to be imposed on community services.
(Ord. 63-80, 10-20-1980; Ord. 52-85, 6-17-1985; Ord. 137-04, 11-8-2004, effective date 1-1-2005)
Source: City of Cape Coral, Florida, Code of Ordinances, City Charter and Land Development Code (Municode Library, library.municode.com)URL: https://library.municode.com/fl/cape_coral/codes/code_of_ordinances?nodeId=CH2AD_ARTIIFE_DIV2UTCAEXFE_S2-21PUAUFetched: 11/4/2026