The city council finds and determines that in order to provide sufficient funding to achieve the city’s goal of maintaining bicycle and pedestrian infrastructure levels and providing adequate bicycle and pedestrian improvements to residents, employees, and visitors of the city, in accordance with the standards established in the general plan, bicycle master plan, and other applicable plans and regulations, development projects identified in Section
8.68.050 below shall pay a bicycle and pedestrian impact fee as outlined in this chapter, in order to mitigate the impacts of these development projects on bicycle and pedestrian infrastructure in the city.
The specific purpose of the bicycle and pedestrian impact fee
is to mitigate the impact of development projects by collecting sufficient
funds to pay for the bicycle and pedestrian improvements in the city
that are listed in the bicycle master plan.
(Ord. 1539 § 1, 2017)
The city council finds and determines that the public interest,
convenience, health, welfare, and safety require that adequate bicycle
and pedestrian facilities are provided for residents, visitors, and
employees of the city.
(Ord. 1539 § 1, 2017)
All residential and nonresidential development projects shall be required to pay the bicycle and pedestrian impact fee established pursuant to this chapter, unless subject to the transportation impact fee provided for in Chapter
8.73.
(Ord. 1539 § 1, 2017; Ord. 1607 § 2, 2020)
The bicycle and pedestrian impact fee funds shall only be used
for the purposes outlined in this chapter.
(Ord. 1539 § 1, 2017)