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<br />10/22/2007 <br /> <br />ORIGINAL <br /> <br />ORDINANCE NO. 2318 <br /> <br />AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF REDWOOD CITY, CALIFORNIA, <br />ADDING ARTICLE XVI TO CHAPTER 18 (LOCAL IMPROVEMENTS <br />AND PLANNING) OF THE CITY CODE REGARDING THE PARKS <br />IMPACT FEE AND SETTING THE RATES FOR SUCH FEE <br /> <br />THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF REDWOOD CITY DOES ORDAIN AS <br />FOLLOWS: <br /> <br />Section 1. Findinas. The City Council finds and declares that: <br /> <br />(a) In order to provide services to future development in the City, the City <br />must expand and improve its system of parks, parkland, and recreation facilities. <br /> <br />(b) The City has engaged Economic & Planning Systems to prepare a study, <br />entitled "Final Technical Memorandum" and dated March 8, 2007 by Economic & <br />Planning Systems (EPS) (the "Study"), describing new and improved facilities that are <br />needed to mitigate the anticipated demands of new development (the "Program"). The <br />Study, which is on file in the Office of the City Clerk, is incorporated herein by reference. <br /> <br />(c) The Mitigation Fee Act (Section 66000 et seq. of the California <br />Government Code) and Article XI, Section 7 of the California Constitution authorizes the <br />City to levy a fee upon development projects to defray all or a portion of the costs of <br />public facilities (including public improvements and public amenities) related to the <br />development project. <br /> <br />(d) The City desires to impose a fee, to be known as the "Parks Impact Fee," <br />upon development projects, for the purpose of funding the costs of the Program (the <br />"Fee"). The Fee, its methodology, and the calculations supporting its methodology, are <br />set forth in this Ordinance and more completely analyzed in the Study. <br /> <br />(e) The Study estimates the costs of each element of the Program and <br />substantiates a methodology for the Fee that will charge each new development <br />projects only for the portion of the costs of the Program necessary to mitigate the <br />impacts expected to be caused by that development project. <br /> <br />(f) There is a reasonable relationship between the need for the Program and <br />the development projects on which the Fee will be imposed because such new <br />development projects will create an additional demand on City services, requiring the <br />expansion of the facilities to provide such services. <br /> <br />(g) There is a reasonable relationship between the Fee's use and <br />development projects on which the Fee will be imposed because the Fee will only fund <br />the portion of Project costs necessitated by each new development. <br /> <br />ATTY/ORD/ORD.288 <br />07 <br /> <br />2318 <br />formerly muff # 305 <br />