ORDINANCE NO. 98-1189 - "AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF HERMOSA BEACH, CALIFORNIA, AMENDING ORDINANCE NO. 88-932 RELATING TO FIRE FLOW FEES."

Submitted for adoption and waiver of full reading is Ordinance No. 98-1189 , relating to the above subject.

At the meeting of January 12, 1999, an ordinance was presented to Council for consideration and was introduced by the following vote:

AYES: Bowler, Edgerton, Oakes, Reviczky

NOES: Mayor Benz

ABSENT: None

ABSTAIN: None

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ORDINANCE NO. 99-1189

AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF HERMOSA BEACH, CALIFORNIA, AMENDING ORDINANCE NO. 88-932 RELATING TO FIRE FLOW FEES

THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF HERMOSA BEACH, CALIFORNIA DOES ORDAIN AS FOLLOWS:

SECTION 1. Findings.

1. The City Council finds that, by the adoption of Ordinance No. 88-932, the city established a fire flow fee to address the issues of public safety and fire protection.
2. The City Council finds that the general purpose of the fire flow fee is to implement the goals and objectives of the Safety Element of the General Plan and to mitigate the fire protection impacts caused by new development. The City Council further finds that the express intent of Ordinance No. 88-932 is that fire flow fee revenues be used to finance improvements in "fire protection facilities".
3. The City Council finds that the National Fire Protection Association defines fire protection facilities as "fire administrative offices; fire stations; fire training facilities; fire communication centers; and fire maintenance centers".
4. The City Council finds the expenditure of fire flow fee revenues on fire protection facilities as defined by the National Fire Protection.
5. Association is consistent with the general purpose and express intent of Ordinance No. 88-932.
6. The City Council finds that new development has increased the density level of the City and has placed additional burdens on the fire protection system. The City Council further finds that a direct relationship exists between new development in all zones of the City and the need to install, and upgrade fire protection facilities as defined by the National Fire Protection Association.
7. The City Council finds that the use of fire flow fee revenues to improve fire protection facilities as defined by the National Fire Protection Association will help alleviate the additional burden on the fire protection system created by new development in the City.
8. The City Council finds that the fire protection fees collected pursuant to Ordinance No. 88-932 shall be used to finance only those public facilities described or identified in Exhibit "A" as amended by Ordinance No. 96-1158 and this ordinance, and attached hereto.

SECTION 2. Exhibit "A" ("Fire Protection Measures Subject to Fire Protection Fee") to Ordinance 88-932, as amended by Ordinance 96-1158, is hereby amended to replace paragraph 5 to read as follows:

"5. FIRE ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICES; FIRE TRAINING FACILITIES; FIRE COMMUNICATION CENTERS; AND FIRE MAINTENANCE CENTERS"

SECTION 3. Exhibit "A" ("Fire Protection Measures Subject to Fire Protection Fee") to Ordinance 88-932, as amended by Ordinance 96-1158 and by this ordinance, and attached hereto, is hereby adopted.

SECTION 4. This ordinance shall become effective and be in full force and effect from and after thirty (30) days of its final passage and adoption.

SECTION 5. Prior to the expiration of fifteen (15) days after the date of its adoption, the City Clerk shall cause this ordinance to be published in the Easy Reader, a weekly newspaper of general circulation published and circulated, in the City of Hermosa Beach in the manner provided by law.

SECTION 6. The City Clerk shall certify to the passage and adoption of this ordinance, shall enter the same in the book of original ordinances of said city, and shall make minutes of the passage and adoption thereof in the records of the proceedings of the City Council at which the same is passed and adopted.

PASSED, APPROVED and ADOPTED this 26th day of January, 1999, by the following vote:

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