This ordinance establishes a system development charge for capital improvements to the City of Medford’s sanitary sewer collection system in accordance with ORS 223.297 to 223.314. The premise upon which the Sewer Collection System Development Charge (SCSDC) is based is that each new development, or changes to an existing development, should provide to the sanitary sewer collection system an additional amount of capacity representative of the demand that it will cause and that the charge to the developer will be representative of the cost of that additional capacity. In actual practice, the rates will be set lower than the amounts needed to fund all the needs generated by the development. These charges will provide a significant portion of the funding needed for capital improvements to effect the impacts new development causes in the downstream sanitary sewer system and each developer will pay a fair share. The SCSDC is an "improvement fee" as defined in ORS 223.299 since the charge to the developer is for costs associated with capital improvements yet to be constructed.