The people of the city of Redlands find that accelerating and disorderly residential growth have caused conditions harmful to the public health, safety and general welfare, and have resulted or will soon result in overcrowding of schools, deteriorating water quality and sewage treatment capacity, inadequate police and fire protection, increasing traffic congestion, inadequate parks and recreation facilities, loss of irreplaceable agricultural land, loss of open space, increased air pollution, deterioration of older urban areas, general urban sprawl, and a substantial increase in the cost of government services. (§ 1 of proposition R, passed by voters 11-7-1978)