(A) It is declared to be the policy of the city that the provision of various public facilities required to serve new residential development is subject to the control of the city in accordance with the Comprehensive Plan of the city for the orderly, planned, efficient, and economical development of the city.
(B) New residential developments cause and impose increased and excessive demands upon public facilities and services that are specifically and uniquely attributable to those new residential developments. Affected facilities and services include public schools, libraries, parks and playgrounds, open space, police services, fire and emergency services and public works services.
(C) Planning projections indicate that new residential development shall continue and shall place ever-increasing demands on the school districts, the city and other governmental bodies to provide necessary public facilities.
(D) Development potential and property values are influenced and affected by city policy as expressed in the Comprehensive Plan and as implemented by the City Zoning Code and other city regulations.
(E) To the extent that new residential developments place demands upon public facilities that are specifically and uniquely attributable to such developments, those demands should be satisfied by requiring that the new residential developments creating the demands pay the cost of meeting the demands.
(F) The amount of the development impact fees to be required of new residential developments shall reflect the proportionate share of the cost of the additional public facilities needed to support such developments and shall be calculated to ensure that new residential developments pay only that portion of the costs of acquiring needed lands and, to the extent permitted by law, the needed facilities and services specifically and uniquely attributable to the new residential developments.
(G) The City Council, after careful consideration, hereby finds and declares that imposition of development impact fees upon new residential developments to finance the acquisition of certain land and public facilities, the demand for which is created by such developments within the city, is in the best interests of the general welfare of the city and its residents, is equitable, and does not impose an unfair burden on such developments. Therefore, the City Council deems it necessary and desirable to adopt this subchapter as herein set forth.
(Ord. 06-42, passed 7-20-2006; Ord. 2009-28, passed 9-21-2009)