The City Council finds as follows:
(A) The development of residential property in the city will create increased calls for fire protection services. As a result, new equipment and expansion of existing facilities to house additional fire fighters and equipment will be needed to maintain current levels of service.
(B) Pursuant to Article 11, § 7 of the California Constitution, the city is empowered to enact measures that protect the health, safety, and welfare of its citizens.
(C) The acquisition of new equipment and expansion of existing fire protection facilities are identified in the Fire Protection Facilities section of the Master Facility Plan and are necessary to provide adequate fire protection services within the city.
(D) The development impact fee report and the addendum thereto describe in detail the number of calls for service that an average single-family or multiple-family residence generates, the expanded fire protection facilities required to service new development, and estimates of the costs of those facilities.
(E) The entire affected territory will derive benefit from the new equipment and expanded fire station facilities and should be assessed per the provisions of this chapter and pay a fair share of the cost thereof based on the benefit derived therefrom.
(F) After consideration of the development impact fee report and the addendum thereto and testimony at this public hearing, the City Council hereby approves the development impact fee report and the addendum thereto, and based thereon finds that new development in the city will create fire protection needs that the construction and acquisition of the public improvements funded by this chapter will meet.
(G) The Council also finds that the costs of the equipment and expanded fire protection facilities funded by this chapter are apportioned relative to the anticipated impacts created by development within the affected territory, and that the fees are fairly apportioned on individual dwelling units throughout the affected territory on the basis of benefits conferred on property proposed for development and the need for such facilities created by the proposed development.
(H) The facts and evidence establish that there is a reasonable relationship between the need for the described public facilities and the needs created by the types of development on 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. This reasonable relationship is described in more detail in the development impact fee report and the addendum thereto.
(I) The Council also finds that the cost estimates set forth in the development impact fee report are reasonable and will not exceed the reasonably estimated total of these costs.
(J) The fire protection fees collected pursuant to this chapter shall be used only to finance the fire protection facilities described or identified in the Fire Protection Facilities section of the Master Facility Plan.
(K) The City Council also finds that it is necessary to exempt the affected areas described in Chapter 16.31 of the Corona Municipal Code establishing development impact fees for the Temescal Canyon Public Safety Facility, since those fees have been adopted for the purpose of funding police and fire facilities necessary to serve the Temescal Canyon area, a separate and geographically distinct area, and it would be unfair to require properties in the Temescal Canyon area to pay additional fees for fire protection facilities.
(Ord. 2552 § 3, 2001.)