The purpose and intent of this chapter is to establish a development mitigation fee to: (a) help fund the maintenance of biological diversity and the natural ecosystem processes that support this diversity; (b) protect vegetation communities and natural areas within the city and western Riverside County which are known to support plant and wildlife species covered by the MSHCP; (c) maintain economic development within the city by providing a streamlined regulatory process from which development can proceed in an orderly process; and (d) protect the existing character of the city and the region through the implementation of a system of reserves that will provide for permanent conservation of species covered by the MSHCP.
(Ord. 3326 § 2, 2021; Ord. 2678 § 1, 2003.)