Home Builders Ass'n v. City of Scottsdale

*341OPINION

WREN, Judge.

This appeal challenges the constitutionality of a Scottsdale ordinance which levied upon all developers a water development charge in the minimum amount of $400 per dwelling unit on all units for which building permits were obtained after the effective date of the ordinance. Appellants complain that the ordinance is unconstitutional on its face in that it violates principles of equal protection under both our State and Federal Constitutions.

Appellants assert that the ordinance, by focusing on the time of obtaining a building permit rather than connecting to the water…