The city council of the city finds that new development of land within the city imposes increased demands on the city’s capital improvements and operational service requirements. This chapter establishes the urban structure program for the adoption and administration of development impact fees by the city for the benefit of the citizens whereby as a condition to the issuance of a building permit by the city the property owner or land developer will be required to pay development impact fees or provide other consideration to the city for the purpose of defraying the costs of public expenditures for capital improvements and operational services which will benefit such new development. The development impact fees established herein shall be imposed in an amount based upon a unit of measurement, including, but not limited to, the gross square footage, number of acres, number of lane miles, number of residential dwelling units, or some similarly fair and reasonable basis, in order to finance such capital improvement and operational services, the demand for which is generated by new development in the city. New development impact fees shall not exceed the cost of providing capital improvements and operational services for which the need is attributable to those development projects that pay the fees. (Ord. 714 § 8, 2021).