(A) Findings and purpose.
(1) An adequate police department, which includes a facility large enough to accommodate the sworn and non-sworn staff, contributes to the safety, well-being and quality of life of all of those who live and work within the city.
(2) The Community Facilities Chapter of the 2004 General Plan includes a goal of providing a high level of police services for the city, which goal includes providing sufficient police facilities.
(3) The current police facilities are inadequate for the current population as well as new growth expected within the city. In order to provide adequate police facilities, it is necessary to upgrade the facilities in terms of both size and equipment.
(4) The City Council's purpose in enacting this section is to implement a police facilities fee that shall be imposed upon all new development within the city in order to ensure that such development is helping to pay its share of the costs in upgrading the city's police facilities.
(B) Police facility fee.
(1) A Police Facility fee is hereby established to be imposed upon all new development in the city in an amount to be determined by resolution of the City Council. The amount of the fee shall not exceed the new development's fair share of the costs of the new police facilities, including acquisition, design, construction and financing.
(2) The fees imposed by this section shall be deposited in the Police Facility Fund and shall be used only to finance the acquisition, design, and construction of new police facilities identified by resolution of the City Council that are needed as a result of new development within the city.
(Ord. 533-C.S., passed 11-16-04)