This chapter is adopted pursuant to the general powers reserved to the city under its City Charter. The purpose of this chapter is to establish a habitat conservation fee relating to the mitigation of the loss of plant and animal species and their habitat in connection with development of land within the North and South Natomas community plan areas. This chapter is intended to implement the Natomas Basin habitat conservation plan and the implementation agreement entered into between the city, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, the California Department of Fish and Game and the Natomas Basin conservancy, which plan and agreement were adopted by the city council on August 7, 1997, and which provide a method and alternatives by which landowners may satisfy local, state and federal mandated mitigation requirements in order to develop their properties and to construct required infrastructure in the plan area. The fee established by this chapter is one which landowners may elect to pay in lieu of satisfying federal and state Endangered Species Acts by other methods as specified in that plan and agreement. (Prior code § 84.10.1000)