§ 26-98-720. Findings and determinations of the board of supervisors.

(a)

The purpose of the fees adopted by Section 26-98-720 et seq. is to pay the costs of roadway facilities and improvements in accordance with the provisions of the Sonoma County general plan, including the circulation and transit element, and to implement the county's general plan, and to use the authority of Article XI, Section 7 of the California Constitution by imposing development fees to fund the costs of certain facilities and services the need for which is generated by the type and level of development proposed in the Larkfield development fee impact area.

(b)

The use to which the fees are to be put is to pay the costs of the roadway facilities and improvements identified in Table 4, dated April 1997, as amended (attached to this ordinance and on file in the permit and resource management department and made a part hereof).

(c)

There is a reasonable relationship between the fees used and the types of development projects on which the fee is imposed for the reasons set forth in the Sonoma County general plan, the January 1991, February 1992, and subsequent reports of the transportation and public works director, all of which are incorporated herein by this reference.

(d)

There is a reasonable relationship between the need for the roadway facilities and improvements identified in Table 4, dated April 1997 as amended, and the development projects on which the fee is imposed, for the reasons set forth in the Sonoma County general plan, the January 1991, February 1992, and subsequent reports of the transportation and public works director, all of which are incorporated herein by this reference.

(e)

The cost estimates in Table 4, dated April 1997, as amended, are based upon actual current costs of construction as determined by the county director of transportation and public works through an analysis of current contracted public projects.

(f)

Without the adoption of Section 26-98-700 et seq., and the construction of infrastructure improvements as called for in Table 4, dated April 1997 as amended, there will be decreased levels of service on certain highways, increased congestion, decreased highway safety, increased accidents, inadequate structural sections, road services deteriorating to the point where they cannot be safely maintained, lack of shoulders meeting basic safety standards, substandard traffic intersections, and an increase in flooding potential.

(Ord. No. 5012 § 8, 1997: Ord. No. 4817, 1994.)