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A. Chula Vista has experienced and continues to experience uncontrolled rapid residential growth. This unprecedented growth is having a serious impact on the City’s traffic flow, schools, street maintenance, water and sewer services, environmental quality and the City’s overall quality of life today and in the foreseeable future. The purpose of this measure is to qualify an effective and fair growth management ordinance by initiative petition of the voters, one that will control growth and protect the quality of life. This measure is not designed to halt quality growth, but to ensure that rampant, unplanned development does not overtax facilities and destroy the quality and home town character of Chula Vista.

B. It is the intent of the people of the City to better plan for and control the rate of residential growth in the City in order that the services provided by the City, school, park, utility and/or service agencies operating in the City can be properly and effectively staged in a manner which will not overextend existing facilities, and in order that deficient services may be brought up to required and necessary standards while minimizing, by means of long-range financial planning, the avoidable problems of shortsighted piecemeal growth. In order to accomplish this, this ordinance will guarantee that any fees collected for drainage, schools, streets, utilities, parks and recreation facilities shall be collected or assured by the developers in advance of development impacts and shall be properly utilized and spent by the City or agency in a timely manner to ensure that the impact of the development will not have a negative impact on the residents of Chula Vista.

C. It is the intent of the people of the City to establish control over the quality and rate of growth of the City in the interest of: preserving the character of the community; protecting the open space of the City; protecting the quality of life in the City; ensuring the adequacy of City facilities, school facilities, recreation and park facilities and services; ensuring the balanced development of the City; preventing further the significant deterioration of environmental quality; ensuring that the future traffic demands do not exceed the capacity of streets; ensuring the character of the City’s existing neighborhoods are preserved; ensuring the adequacy of fire and police and paramedic protection; and ensuring adequate water and sanitary sewer systems. (Ord. 2309, 1989).