The City Council finds as follows.
(A) The City Council hereby reaffirms the general findings made in conjunction with the adoption of Chapter 16.23 of the Corona Municipal Code.
(B) Pursuant to California Constitution, Article 11, Section 7, the city is empowered to enact measures that protect the health, safety and welfare of its citizens.
(C) The development of residential, commercial and industrial property in the Temescal Canyon Area will create increased calls for police and fire protection services. As a result, new equipment and new facilities to house additional police and fire personnel and equipment will be needed to maintain current levels of service and response times within the Temescal Canyon Area of the city. The boundaries of the Temescal Canyon Area are identified in Exhibit 1 of Ordinance No. 2497 and are hereby incorporated by reference as if set out fully herein.
(D) The City Council finds that the acquisition and construction costs, equipment and personnel costs for the Temescal Canyon Public Safety Facility are identified in the reports and are necessary to provide adequate police and fire protection services to the Temescal Canyon Area.
(E) The City Council further finds that the Temescal Canyon Public Safety Fee is necessary to fund the acquisition and construction costs, equipment and personnel costs for the Temescal Canyon Public Safety Facility, as these are identified in the reports and is necessary to provide funding to maintain adequate police and fire protection services to the Temescal Canyon Area.
(F) With regard to the methodology for levying the Temescal Canyon public safety fee, the City Council further finds that:
(1) The reports describe in detail the number of police and fire calls for service that typical single and multiple family residential, commercial/office and industrial uses generate, the expanded police and fire protection facilities required to service new development in the Temescal Canyon Area and the estimated costs of those facilities;
(2) The estimated cost for the Temescal Canyon Public Safety Facility as described in the reports is based upon current construction costs for similar facilities constructed in the City of Corona and comparable cities. The City Council finds that the method for estimating the costs of construction for the Temescal Canyon Public Safety Facility is reasonably based on a square footage basis and will not exceed the reasonably estimated total of these costs;
(3) The Land Use Element of the General Plan and Zoning Ordinance of the City of Corona specify the permitted uses of land within the city and place limits on the intensity and density of development. The City Council has reviewed the relationship between land uses and densities permitted and the rate and amount of actual development within the city and its sphere of influence. The City Council has identified trends in growth and development which enable the City Council to project, with a reasonable degree of accuracy, the extent of future development and the impacts such development will have on public safety services;
(4) The City Council has also examined the extent to which different land uses generate demands for public safety services and have taken into consideration, among other evidence, the information contained in the reports discussing such demand generators;
(5) The City Council also finds that the costs of the Temescal Canyon Public Safety Facility and its proposed equipment and personnel, as described in the reports and as funded by the Temescal Canyon public safety fee, are apportioned relative to the anticipated impacts created by new development within the Temescal Canyon Area and that the fees are fairly apportioned on individual residential dwelling units and proposed commercial/industrial development on a square footage basis throughout the Temescal Canyon Area on the basis of benefits conferred on property proposed for development and the need for such facilities created by such development;
(6) The facts and evidence establish that there is a reasonable relationship between the need for the Temescal Canyon Public Safety Facility and the types of development upon which the fee will be imposed and that there is a reasonable relationship between the fee’s use and the types of development for which the fee is charged. These relationships are described in more detail in the reports;
(7) The facts and evidence further establish that there is a reasonable relationship between the amount of the fees collected and the costs of the Temescal Canyon Public Safety Facility attributable to the development for which the Temescal Canyon public safety fee is imposed. This relationship is described in more detail in the reports.
(G) The entire Temescal Canyon Area will derive benefit from the Temescal Canyon Public Safety Facility and should be assessed per the provisions of § 16.22.030 and pay a fair share of the cost thereof based upon the benefit derived therefrom.
(H) The Temescal Canyon public safety fees collected pursuant to Chapter 16.22 shall be used only to finance the Temescal Canyon Public Safety Facility described and identified in the Law Enforcement and Fire Protection Facilities sections of the reports.
(I) It is the intent of the City Council to adopt a fair and equitable method of securing the necessary revenues to fund the Temescal Canyon Public Safety Facility, including the acquisition of property needed and construction costs to accommodate the Temescal Canyon Public Safety Facility.
(`78 Code, § 16.22.000.) (Ord. 2497 § 3, 2000.)