(A) The Public Facilities and Services Element of the County General Plan includes goal to provide for new libraries, commensurate with population growth, that are accessible and provide opportunities for life-long learning, enabling residents to obtain skills to meet the needs of evolving business sectors.
(B) The County General Plan includes a requirement of new development to pay its fair share of public facility and service costs.
(C) New development within the unincorporated area of the county will generate the need for the construction of new facilities and/or renovation of existing ones to meet the demands of the new development.
(D) The purpose of this article is to impose development impact fees to fund the cost of certain library facilities, the need for which is directly or indirectly generated by the type and level of development proposed within the unincorporated area, consistent with Article XI, Section 7 of the California Constitution and the Mitigation Fee Act (Cal. Gov’t Code §§ 66000 et seq.).
(Ord. 945, § 1(part), 2016)