The council 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 provide for the construction of and establishment and collection of 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 health, safety, 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 alternate method of financing construction of planned drainage facilities within the city;
C. To provide a source of information regarding development of planned drainage facilities for present and prospective residents, developers and investors in property within the city;
D. To obviate the menace to public safety arising from inadequate provision for removal of surface and storm waters occurring as the result of development of property within the city;
E. To prevent deterioration of property values and impairment of conditions making for desirable residential, commercial or industrial development, as the case may be, that would result from the failure to construct planned drainage facilities;
F. To prevent deterioration of public streets and other public facilities that would result from failure to construct planned drainage facilities;
G. This chapter is enacted pursuant to the authority under the Government Code of the state of California and the Charter of the city of Visalia to provide for collection of drainage fees for construction of planned drainage facilities within the city at the time of the division of land, or at the time of other development thereof; except as herein excepted, such fees being, however, subject to credits as herein provided for revenues, assessments and other receipts theretofore collected with respect to any such parcel or parcels of land for construction of planned drainage facilities within the city. (Ord. 2017-01 (part), 2017: prior code § 9435)