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7B ATTACHMEI�R�ge 2O ORDINANCE NO. AN ORDINANCE OF THE ClTY OF RE�WQOD CITY, CAUF4RNfA, ADi3iNG ARTiCLE XVi T� CHAPTER 18 {L��AL IiviN��VEMENI"S . AND PLANNING) OF THE C[TY CODE REGARDING THE PARKS IMPACT �EE AND SETTING THE RATES FOR SUCH FEE THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE C1TY OF RE�W04D CITY DOES ORDAIN AS FOLLOWS: Section 1. F�ndinq�. The City Counci! find� and declares that: (a) In order to provide services to future development in the City, tne City must expand and improve its system of parks, parkland, and recreation facilities. (b) The City has engaged Economic & Pianning Systems to prepare a study, entitled "Revised Technica{ Memarandum" and dated March 8, 2007 by Economic & Pfanning Systems (EPS) (the "Study"), describing new and improved facifities that are needed to mitigate the anticipated demands of new development (the "Program"). The Study, which is on file in the Office of the City Clerk, is incarporated herein by reference. (c) The Mitigation Fee Act (Section 66Q00 et seq. of the California Government Code) and Articfe XI, Section 7 of the California Constitutian authorizes the City ta levy a fee upon development projects to defray aEl or a portion of the casts of pubiic facilities (including public improvements and public amenities) refated to the develapment project. (d) The City desires to impose a fee, to be known as the "Parks Impact Fee," _ upon development projects, for the purpose of funding the eosts of the Program (the "Fee"). The Fee, its methodology, and the ca(culatians supporting its methodology, are set forth in this Ordinance and more completely anaEyzed in the Study. (e) The Study estimates the costs of each element of the Program and substantiates a methodalogy for the Fee that will charge each new development projects only for the portion of the costs of the Program necessary to mitigate the ;mpacts expected to be caused by that develapment �roject. (f) There is a reasonable relationship between the need for the Pragram and the development prajecfs on which the Fee will be imposed because such new development projects will create an additional demand on City services, requiring the expansion af the facilities to provide such services. (g) There is a r�asonab[e relationship 6etween fihe Fee's use and development projects on which the Fee will be imposed because the Fee will anly fund the portion of Project costs necessitated by each new develapment. (h) The Fee cioes not exceed the estimated reasonable cost of providing the €actlities for which the Fee is imposed. The Fee is not levied, collected ar imposed for ATTY/ORD/ORD.288 090507