12.08.010 - Purpose.

In enacting this chapter, the city council hereby finds that this city has experienced explosive increases in land development for high activity purposes, the direct result of which is to rapidly render the previously existing streets and highways inadequate in width and development to provide minimum acceptable service capacity to the lands being developed, and, therefore, the public is being denied streets and highways of minimum standards for safe and convenient vehicular and pedestrian access and travel.

Therefore, the provisions hereof are intended officially to define the requirements, policies, and procedures for the acquisition of public improvements of property, in order to: (1)

Supplement and insure conformity to Title 19, the subdivision map act and to other applicable provisions of this code, and to extend the basic requirements thereunder, to apply to land development in which no subdivision is involved;

(2)

Spread the costs of required public improvements upon the abutting properties as contemplated by law;

(3)

Protect the vested interest of the public in the pre-existing capacity of city streets and highways, and to provide for private participation in the widening and improvement of streets and highways when the same becomes necessary by reason of development of abutting property;

(4)

Protect the public safety and general welfare of the general public.

(Ord. 62 §1 (part), 1962: prior code §7400).