The Council hereby declares and finds that the development of land for urban uses substantially accelerates the concentration of surface and storm waters and that it is necessary to establish and collect drainage fees to defray all or a part of the actual or the estimated cost of constructing planned drainage facilities for the removal of surface and storm waters from drainage areas in order to promote and protect the public safety, peace, comfort, convenience and general welfare and for the accomplishment of the purposes more particularly set forth as follows:
(A) To provide for planned drainage facilities within the City required for the removal of surface and storm waters;
(B) To provide for an additional method of financing the construction of planned drainage facilities;
(C) To provide a reliable source of information regarding the development of planned drainage facilities for present and prospective residents, developers and investors in property;
(D) To obviate the menace to public safety arising from inadequate provisions for the removal of storm waters which run off and accumulate as the result of development of property;
(E) To promote conditions that will provide the deterioration of property values in existing developments and encourage new development of desirable residential, commercial and/or industrial properties through the construction of planned drainage facilities;
(F) To prevent the deterioration of public streets and other public facilities which would result from failure to construct planned drainage facilities; and
(G) To provide for the collection of drainage fees for the construction of planned drainage facilities at the time of the division of land, as authorized by the Subdivision Map Act of the State 1
and the provisions of this Code, or at the time of other development thereof, except as excepted in this Chapter.
Notes
| 1 | 1. For statute authority, see Gov. C. Title 7, Division 2, Chapter 2. |