The city council regulates and requires public improvements as conditions of orderly development. Permitting the formation of a reimbursement district for public improvements and public facilities protects the public health, safety and welfare. The city council may establish a district for the purposes of reimbursing a subdivider or property owner for a portion of their costs in the construction of a public facility or public improvement. Public facility reimbursement districts enable the city to charge developers the cost of public facilities attributable to their development. These districts permit development approval to proceed, while installing necessary public improvements and facilities, providing developers currently developing property within the city and to future developers who are able to take advantage of existing facilities.
(Ord. 764 § 3, 1988)
The city engineer shall recommend to the city council the boundaries of a public facility reimbursement district and indicate the legal parcel or lot assessments based on benefit received from the improvement. The city engineer must demonstrate a reasonable relationship between the public improvement and the parcel assessments.
(Ord. 764 § 3, 1988)
Construction of the following public facilities and public improvements shall be eligible for reimbursement through public facility reimbursement districts: storm drain facilities, sewer facilities, traffic control devices, streets, sidewalks, bridges, railcrossings, landscape medians, street lighting, water facilities and park improvements. From time to time the city council may clarify or expand the public facility or public improvement eligible for reimbursement.
(Ord. 764 § 3, 1988)
The city shall not issue any building permit for construction on any parcel or permit the final recordation of any subdivision map within a public facility reimbursement district until the respective fees have been paid in full.
(Ord. 764 § 3, 1988)
The city council has determined that the formation of a public facility reimbursement district is not of general public benefit, but of benefit to property owners and developers. Developers establishing public facility reimbursement districts shall pay the costs of all professional services provided to establish the public facilities reimbursement district, as established from time to time by resolution of the city council.
(Ord. 764 § 3, 1988)
The property owner or subdivider shall make application for a public facility reimbursement district on forms supplied by the director of public works. The application shall be accompanied by the filing fee and all materials deemed required by the director of public works and the city engineer.
(Ord. 764 § 3, 1988)
A. 
The city council from time to time shall call a public hearing to ascertain whether the public necessity, health, safety or welfare require the formation of a public facility reimbursement district. Prior to such public hearing the city engineer shall prepare a report for submission at the public hearing containing, among other information, the district boundary and property assessments.
B. 
The city clerk shall notify by mail all affected property owners, as shown on the last equalized assessment roll and utilities concerned, of the time and place of such hearing ten days prior to the date of the hearing. Upon completion of the hearing, the decision of the city council shall be final.
(Ord. 764 § 3, 1988)
Whenever the city engineer finds that a property included in a public facility improvement district is to be partially developed and that the estimated facility demand for the partial development is only a part of that which will be generated when the parcel is fully developed, the city engineer may authorize issuance of a building permit upon payment of a proportionate share of the assessment. The balance shall be payable upon further development of the property.
(Ord. 764 § 3, 1988)
In the event any lot or parcel included in a public facility reimbursement district receives additional benefit from any other public facility funded through a public facility reimbursement district, nothing contained in this chapter shall relieve the property owner from future payment of public facility assessments as provided in this chapter, nor shall the property be relieved from the levy of a special assessment under any statute of the state for such additional benefit.
(Ord. 764 § 3, 1988)
The city council shall have the authority to establish public facility reimbursement districts not provided for herein, in accordance with applicable state statutes and the provisions of this chapter.
(Ord. 764 § 3, 1988)