26. WATER
USE CREDIT TRANSFER STATUS REPORT
Meeting Date: April
21, 2003 Budgeted: N/A
General Counsel
Approval: N/A
Committee Recommendation:
N/A
SUMMARY: Ordinance No. 102, adopted February 28, 2002,
deleted District Rule 28-B which allowed Water Use Credit Transfers. However, the ordinance provided a provision
whereby transfer applications pending action by the District that were
completed by December 31, 2002 would be able to proceed under the old
rule. One pending application (former
Spinning Wheel restaurant to the City of Carmel, John Mandurrago, applicant)
was completed by the December 31, 2002 deadline and is scheduled for hearing by
the Board on April 21, 2003. The
remaining applications were not completed and are no longer eligible to
transfer Water Use Credits.
As
the remaining Commercial-to-Public Water Use Credit Transfer will be heard by
the Board at the April 2003 meeting, this report will be discontinued next
month. Future information about water
credit transfer applications will be reported if applications are received.
BACKGROUND:
Water Use Credit Transfers were
governed by District Rule 28. Transfers of Water Use Credits from an existing
commercial use to an expanding commercial use in the same jurisdiction were
first allowed in December 1993. In
September 1995, the District Rules were amended to also allow commercial water
use credits to be transferred into a Jurisdiction’s allocation. Once a Water Use Credit was transferred to a
Jurisdiction’s allocation, the water was available for use at the
Jurisdiction’s discretion and could be used for residential or commercial uses,
including new construction and remodels.
Ordinance
No. 102 was adopted on February 28, 2002, voiding District Rule 28-B,
Property-To-Property and Property-to-Jurisdiction Transfers of Water Use
Credits for Commercial and Industrial Uses and deleting reference to District
Rule 28-B in Rule 28-A.
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