The City Council finds as follows:
(A) The provision of new and expanded facilities and infrastructure is necessary to protect and promote the health, safety, and welfare of all the citizens of Corona by reducing the adverse effects of urbanization and development.
(B) It is necessary to enact and implement certain development fees to assure that all development within the city pays its fair share of the costs of providing necessary public facilities and infrastructure to accommodate such new development.
(C) A proper funding source for the costs associated with new development is a specific development or facilities fee for each type of facility related to the specific need created by the development and reasonably related to the relative cost of providing such necessary public facilities.
(D) The development impact report and the addendum thereto justify the imposition of each development fee on new construction by analyzing the Master Facility Plan, as defined herein, assigning the costs on a fair-share basis to the various types of development, and assigning the resulting fee per dwelling unit and/or commercial/industrial square footage, based on the anticipated burden of such new dwelling unit and/or commercial/industrial area on city facilities and infrastructure and the need created by such dwelling unit and/or commercial/industrial area for new and expanded facilities and infrastructure.
(E) The city anticipates that much of the funding for facilities and infrastructure attributable to commercial and industrial development will be provided through mechanisms such as property tax, sales tax, Measure A funds, community development block grants, gas tax, redevelopment tax increment, intergovernmental revenues, grants, planned local drainage fund, and conditions of entitlement approval. Nevertheless, the development impact report identifies that commercial and industrial development do generate a portion of the need for certain facilities and infrastructure.
(F) The primary purpose of the fees is to mitigate the impact on city facilities and infrastructure caused by increased demand for facilities and infrastructure from persons generated by new development.
(G) The fees will be used to finance public facilities and infrastructure, specifically streets, roadways and traffic signals, drainage facilities and infrastructure, law enforcement and fire protection facilities, library facilities, public meeting facilities, aquatic center facilities, and park and recreation facilities.
(H) The use of the fees to fund such public facilities and infrastructure is reasonably related to the impacts of residential development and other development, on the city as more fully described in the development impact report and the addendum thereto.
(I) The need for development fees to fund such public facilities is reasonably related to impacts on the city of residential development and other development as more fully described in the development impact report and the addendum thereto.
(J) To assure fair and legally sound implementation of the development fees established in this chapter, such fees shall be reviewed annually and shall be set by non-codified ordinance following notice and hearing.
(K) To assure fair implementation of the development fees established in this chapter, the city must have the latitude to phase the imposition of certain fees.
(L) To assure fair implementation of the development fees established in this chapter, the city must have the latitude to defer or waive such fees in special cases, after notice and hearing, where better or more fair financing arrangements would result from such deferral, or where imposition of such fees would cause inequities.
(M) To assure fair implementation of the development fees established by this chapter, provisions must be made for extending such fees to subsequently annexed land that benefits from the public facilities funded by these fees.
(N) The provisions of this chapter are in addition to all other provisions of the Corona Municipal Code and all new residential and other development, as defined in this chapter, and shall be subject to the provisions of this chapter and to all other provisions of the Corona Municipal Code.
(O) Notice of the public meeting adopting this chapter has been given in compliance with Cal. Government Code §§ 65091, 66484, and 66016 through 60018.
(Ord. 2552 § 3, 2001.)