The City Council of the City of Whitefish (the "Council") hereby finds and determines that new growth and development, including, but not limited to, new residential, commercial, retail, and office development in the City of Whitefish will create additional demand and need for public facilities in the City of Whitefish, and the Council finds that new growth and development should pay a proportionate share of the cost of new facilities needed to serve the new growth and development. The City of Whitefish has conducted extensive studies documenting the procedures for measuring the impact of new development on public facilities, has prepared the "Impact Fees for the Water, Wastewater, and Stormwater Utility Systems" dated July 2007, the "Rate Study for Impact Fees for Paved Trails, Park Maintenance Building, Emergency Services Building and City Hall" dated July 7, 2007, and the "Impact Fee Update" dated August 2018, and hereby incorporates these studies into this chapter by reference. Therefore, pursuant to Montana Code Annotated sections 7-6-1601 through 7-6-1604, the Council adopts this chapter to assess impact fees for water, wastewater, stormwater, paved trails, park maintenance building, emergency services building and City Hall. The provisions of this chapter shall be liberally construed in order to carry out the purposes of the Council in establishing the impact fee program. The City Council further finds that it has fully complied with the procedure and the analysis required by Montana Code Annotated sections 7-6-1601 through 7-6-1604 and finds that the impact fees authorized by this chapter are reasonable, equitable, and in full compliance with the sections of State law referenced above. (Ord. 18-38, 12-3-2018)