In enacting this chapter, the City Council hereby finds and determines as follows:
(A) In certain portions of the city no sidewalks, curbs, gutters, street lights, or street trees are presently installed. In other areas of the city, inadequate sidewalks, curbs, gutters, catch basins, and/or street paving presently exist. As a result thereof, the public has been and will continue to be deprived of public right-of-way improvements of the minimum standards necessary for safe and convenient vehicular and pedestrian access and travel.
(B) The city has experienced substantial increases in population and land development for high density and high activity purposes. As a direct result thereof, the previously existing public right-of-way improvements within much of the city in many instances have been and will continue to be rendered inadequate to provide minimum acceptable service capacity for the lands being developed within the city, and the public has been and will continue to be increasingly denied public right-of-way improvements of the minimum standards necessary for safe and convenient vehicular and pedestrian access and travel within the city.
(C) The lack of adequate sidewalks in the city in many instances forces pedestrians, particularly school children, to walk in the street and be subjected to the hazards of vehicular traffic.
(D) The lack of adequate catch basins, curbs, and gutters in the city causes poor drainage, causes the standing of water in puddles, renders street sweeping more difficult, and results in the accumula-tion of filth. In the absence of such curbs and gutters, there is no adequate place for garbage and rubbish receptacles, as a result of which such containers are subjected to hazards of vehicular traffic and there is an unnecessary spillage of garbage and destruction of containers. Further, the lack of such curbs and gutters subjects children or pedestrians in the normal sidewalk area to increased risk of accidental injury by vehicular traffic.
(E) The lack of adequate street lighting reduces night visibility and makes it more difficult for pedestrians to see where they are walking.
(F) The lack of such adequate public right-of-way improvements is hereby found and declared to be dangerous to the public health and safety of the inhabitants of the city.
('86 Code, § 13.44.010) (Ord. 3263, passed - - ; Am. Ord. 3290, passed - - )