The City Council of the city finds, determines, and declares that:
A. The city must expand its street system in order to maintain acceptable levels of service if new development is to be accommodated without reducing these levels of service to unacceptable levels as established in the circulation element of the general plan of the city. This must be done in order to promote and protect the public health, safety and welfare;
B. The California Legislature through the enactment of California statutes has authorized and encouraged cities to enact impact fees in order to meet the impacts of new development;
C. The imposition of impact fees is one of the preferred methods of ensuring that development bears a proportionate share of the cost of capital facilities necessary to accommodate such development. This must be done in order to promote and protect the public health, safety and welfare;
D. Each of the land use categories shown in the schedule of fees to be adopted pursuant to Section 16.44.070, will generate traffic necessitating the acquisition of rights-of-way, street construction and street improvements;
E. The fees established under the authority of Section 16.44.070 are derived from, are based upon, and do not exceed the costs of providing additional rights-of-way, street construction and street improvements necessitated by the new land developments for which the fees are levied;
F. The city has commissioned the completion of the report titled "Traffic Impact Fee Update Nexus Study City of Visalia," dated November 13, 2008. Such report, as it may be revised from time to time, sets forth a reasonable methodology and analysis for the determination of the impact of new development on the need for and costs for additional rights-of-way, street construction and street improvements in the city. (Ord. 2017-01 (part), 2017: Ord. 2008-14, 2008: prior code § 9465)