The city council has determined that it is reasonable and in the public interest to enact and impose a utility systems development charge for the purpose of recovering a fair share of the costs of providing existing utility system infrastructure to serve new customers or revised uses of existing customers. The intent is to reimburse the city’s utility for the cost of construction of available capacity sanitary sewer, water and storm drainage facilities from those properties, which as part of their development and use create direct or indirect needs for those facilities. The city council finds that the public would benefit from a logical long-range approach to the financing of necessary general facilities. Experience has demonstrated that the lack of such provision casts an unfair and unexpected burden on taxpayers and residences in the form of utility rates, taxes, bond interest costs and assessments when core, general or central facilities become inadequate, causing a crisis. Operating from crisis to crisis is wasteful, unsafe and not an acceptable method of operating local government; and debt financing should be minimized wherever possible. (Ord. 6455 § 1, 2013; Ord. 6391 § 1, 2011; Ord. 6341 § 1, 2011; Ord. 5801 § 1, 2003; Ord. 4830 § 1, 1996; Ord. 4479 § 2, 1990; Ord. 3510 § 1, 1980.)