Title 18 - Unified Development Ordinance

18.400.010 General Policy -- Necessity for Right-of-Way and Temporary Construction Easement Dedication as a Condition of Development Approval

1. A.
   New development must be supported by adequate public facilities.
2. B.
   Thoroughfares are an essential component of the City street network and are necessary to accommodate the continuing growth and development of the City.
3. C.
   It is necessary and desirable to obtain rights-of-way and temporary construction easements for abutting thoroughfares to support new development at the earliest stage of the development process; hence it is in the best interest of the City to require dedication of rights-of-way and temporary construction easements at such time.
4. D.
   There is an essential nexus between the traffic impacts created by a new development and the requirement to dedicate rights-of-way and temporary construction easements to allow the improvement of abutting Thoroughfares.
5. E.
   The City desires to assure both that development impacts are mitigated through contributions of Thoroughfare rights-of-way and temporary construction easements and that a development project contribute not more than its fair share of Thoroughfare costs.
6. F.
   It is the City's intent to institute a procedure to assure that mandatory dedications of Thoroughfare rights-of-way are roughly proportional to the traffic demands created by a new development.
7. G.
   The City may promulgate administrative guidelines that supplement the standards and procedures set forth in this Chapter.

(History: Ord. ZRR-2482 §1, 2004; ZRR-2015 §1, 97)

Effective on: 1/1/1901