A. This chapter is adopted under the general powers reserved to the city by the city charter. Its purpose is to authorize certain development impact fees, as described in various finance plans or nexus studies, to be imposed upon development projects to provide some or all of the funds required to design, construct, install, and acquire public infrastructure, or to utilize capacity within existing infrastructure, that meets the needs of the projected development and addresses its impacts. This article sets out provisions that are common to each development impact fee, except as otherwise provided in subsequent articles specific to each fee.
B. This chapter is intended to:
1. Protect and promote the public health, safety, and welfare by constructing, installing, and acquiring the public infrastructure necessitated by development; and
2. Allow development on the condition that the persons that undertake development projects pay the costs of the public infrastructure so that those costs do not become a responsibility of the city. (Ord. 2017-0010 § 1)