The City Council finds and declares that:
(A) The city provides public services and constructs and maintains public facilities for the benefit of residents, businesses, and employees within the city.
(B) In 2003, the city adopted the current City of Antioch General Plan, which includes a Growth Management Element intended to ensure that new development in the city provides the financial support necessary to allow the city to supply the desired levels of public services and facilities necessary to achieve, sustain and continue to promote economic well-being and a high quality of life in the community.
(C) In accordance with its general plan, the city intends to expand and improve its public facilities to serve new development and to maintain and improve existing public facilities and the public services provided by the city that are supported by such public facilities.
(D) To implement the General Plan, the city intends to require every person who develops or redevelops land in the city to mitigate the impacts of such development or redevelopment on public facilities, by constructing public facilities in accordance with specific capital improvement programs, or paying fees that will be used to construct such facilities, or both.
(E) The city commissioned and adopted a Development Impact Fee Study ("DIF Study" or "Study"), which identifies specific public facilities needed to implement the city's General Plan, the estimated costs of such public facilities, and various possible fees that, if adopted, could be used to pay such costs. The Study may be amended from time to time to reflect changed conditions and circumstances and update and refine the public facilities cost estimates.
(F) The public facilities identified in the Study, as may be amended from time to time, are necessary to protect the public health, safety, and general welfare, to facilitate orderly urban development, to maintain or enhance existing levels of service, and to promote economic well-being within the city as a whole.
(G) The fees developed in the Study are based upon the city's determination that new development and redevelopment generates additional residents, employees, and structures which in turn place additional cumulative burdens upon the city's infrastructure, and its adopted policy that such development and redevelopment should pay its proportionate share of the cost for new or improved public facilities required to meet such burdens.
(H) The public facilities identified in the Study are part of an integrated system serving and providing benefits to planned development within the entire city.
(Ord. 2079-C-S, passed 3-25-14)