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ATTACHMENT 1 CITY OF PETALUMA CHAPTER 17.26 RESIDENTIAL GROWTH MANAGEMENT SYSTEM! 17.26.010 Legislative intent. It is the intent of this growth management system to assure that residential development, remains within the limits established by the Petaluma General Plan as amended from time to time. It provides a mechanism for the city council to set growth related development objectives including but not limited to maintaining a reasonable ratio of eastside to westside growth, encouraging infill and a mix of housing types, and assuring that essential public facilities and services are properly matched to proposed development. Furthermore, it is the intent of this chapter to improve the efficiency of the development review process and establish tentative map approval, final map approval (for subsequent project phases) or other appropriate development approval (for residential projects not requiring a land division) as the point at which allotments have been exercised. (Ord. 1716 NCS §1 (part), 1988.) 17.26.020 Findings. A. This growth management system represents a refinement of and not a departure from the city's long standing and legally- tested growth management system, first adopted in 1972 and in continuous operation since then. B. The residential allocation pool for nonexempt units established by the 19872005 Petaluma General Plan and incorporated in this ordinance, an average of five hundred units allocated per year, no more than one thousand units allocated in one year and no more than one thousand five hundred units allocated in three consecutive years, provides the flexibility to modulate residential growth over time and prevent overburdening local services, while accommodating future residential development at a rate consistent with historic trends. C. The growth management system serves the public interest and protects the public health, safety and welfare by implementing residential growth parameters upon which future planning for land use and major city facilities (such as city sewer and water systems) is based. D. The growth management system is a key implementation measure of the 1987- 2005 general plan and essential to attaining the following general plan goals: 1. Preserve and strengthen the quality of life in Petaluma (Goal 2, Community Character); 2. Maintain Petaluma as separate and distinct from nearby communities (Goal 1, Land Use and Growth Management); 3. Preserve existing open space lands outside of Petaluma but within the Petaluma Planning Referral Area (Goal 3, Conservation, Open Space and Energy); 4. Preserve and protect agricultural use on lands surrounding Petaluma in the Petaluma Planning Referral Area (Goal 4, Conservation, Open Space and Energy).