The city council finds that due to the passage of Article XIIIA of the California Constitution, city property tax revenues will be sharply curtailed. The council further finds that due to the present and future curtailment of said revenues, property tax revenue even in combination with other city revenues will not be sufficient to provide for necessary construction of major public improvements made necessary by new development within the area identified as developable on the city’s general plan and environmental design plans.

Those projects which drain into the Petaluma River and its tributaries and which exceed normal runoff will require the construction and detention areas to accommodate such runoff and public funds are not available for such construction. The fees required by this chapter are therefore declared to be necessary for the substantial preservation of the public health, safety and general welfare, by causing costs of construction of said improvements to be borne by all of the developments within the city of Petaluma, all of which generate the need for detention area improvements. (Ord. 1647 NCS §1, 1986; Ord. 1530 NCS §1 (part), 1982.)