The purposes and intent of the City’s Development Fee Code and procedures are:
(A) To establish uniform procedures for the imposition, calculation, collection, expenditure, and administration of any development impact fees imposed on a new development;
(B) To implement the goals, objectives, and policies of the City’s general plan, as amended from time to time, to assure that new development contributes its proportionate share of the costs incurred by the City that are associated with providing necessary public services to new development;
(C) To set forth standards and procedures for creating and assessing development impact fees consistent with the requirements of A.R.S. § 9-463.05, including requirements pursuant to A.R.S. § 9-463.05(K) that, on or before August 1, 2014, the City replace its development impact fees that were adopted prior to January 1, 2012 with development impact fees adopted pursuant to the requirements of A.R.S. § 9-463.05, as amended by the state legislature in SB 1525, Fiftieth Legislature, First Regular Session;
(D) To provide for the temporary continuation of certain development impact fees adopted prior to January 1, 2012 until otherwise replaced pursuant to this Chapter, or longer where such development impact fees were pledged to support financing or debt for a grandfathered facility as permitted by A.R.S. § 9-463.05(K), (R), and (S); and
(E) To set forth procedures for administering the development impact fee program, including mandatory offsets, credits, and refunds of development impact fees. All development impact fee assessments, offsets, credits, or refunds must be administered in accordance with the provisions of this chapter.
(Prior Code, § 8-11-2) (Ord. 14-06, passed 7-7-2014)