A. The city council finds that Murrieta is a rapidly growing city. The city's population has the potential to grow from a current population of about forty thousand (40,000) to approximately one hundred two thousand (102,000) at build out. This increase in population is reasonably expected to create a substantial increase in the demand placed upon public facilities. The city's existing public facilities will soon become inadequate to handle the projected population growth at existing levels of service. In order to serve the projected population growth, public facilities must be expanded.
B. It is the intent of the city to require every person who develops land to mitigate the impacts of that development on the city's public facilities. The city will therefore require developers to pay a public facilities development impact fee that will assist in meeting the demand for public facilities caused by development. The public facilities will be constructed in accordance with a capital improvement plan adopted by resolution of the city council.
C. The amount of the public facilities development impact fees collected pursuant to this chapter shall be limited to the cost of public facilities attributable to new development. The amount of the public facilities development impact fees collected shall not include the cost of public facilities that serve existing development.
(Ord. 196 § 1 (part), 1998)