§ 10-30.1. Findings.

The Board of Supervisors makes the following findings and determinations in regard to the street facility improvement fees levied pursuant to the provisions of this Article:

(a)

The Board has previously levied Chico Urban Area Street Facility Improvement Fees pursuant to this Article.

(b)

The North Chico Specific Plan was adopted by the Board of Supervisors of the County of Butte on March 28, 1995. The Plan anticipated growth and new development in the North Chico Specific Plan Area and the need for infrastructure, including street facility improvements to serve the traffic resulting from such growth and development. Chapter 8, Implementation, of the North Chico Specific Plan, including, but not limited to, pages 8-1, 8-2 and 8-7, and Tables 8-1, 8-2 (Schedule 1), 8-6 and 8-10 therein, contemplated that the street facility improvement fees assessed and levied within the other portions of the Chico Urban Area would also be assessed and levied within the North Chico Specific Plan Area to finance, in part, the contemplated street infrastructure within these areas.

(c)

The North Chico Specific Plan Area is connected to the other portions of the Chico Urban Area by existing and proposed streets, and development within the North Chico Specific Plan Area will cause traffic impacts on streets within other portions of the Chico Urban Area.

(d)

The purpose of the fees assessed and levied by this Article is to defray the cost of improvements to street facilities within the Chico Urban Area made necessary by the anticipated increase to or any change in the traffic impacts within such area caused by development within the Chico Urban Area, as documented by the City of Chico Update of Development Impact Fees, Analysis and Recommendations (Nexus Study), adopted by resolution of the City Council of the City of Chico, the North Chico Specific Plan approved by Resolution 95-47 of the Board of Supervisors of the County of Butte on March 28, 1995, and the County of Butte 20 Year Capital Improvement Program adopted by resolution of the Board of Supervisors.

(e)

The street facilities which will be financed wholly or in part by the fees levied pursuant to this chapter are as defined and identified in this Article, including, but not limited to, Section 10-31(a).

(f)

There is a reasonable relationship between the use of the fees levied pursuant to this Article and the type of development project on which the fees are imposed, as set forth in the provisions of this Article, including, but not limited to, Sections 10-32, 10-33, 10-33.5 and 10-37.

(g)

There is a reasonable relationship between the need for the street facilities and the type of development projects on which the fees are imposed pursuant to this Article, including, but not limited to, Sections 10-32 and 10-33.

(h)

There is a reasonable relationship between the amount of the fees and the cost of the street facilities or portions thereof attributable to the development on which the fees are imposed pursuant to this Article, including, but not limited to, Sections 10-33, 10-34, 10-35 and 10-39.

(Ord. No. 3902, § 1, 2-8-05; Ord. No. 3927, § 4 (part), 2-14-06)