A. There is a shortage of affordable housing, licensable space for child care services and affordable child care and public facilities, adequate employment training and placement services and amenities within the City of Berkeley;

B. Persons who live and/or work in the City have serious difficulty locating housing, child care and public facilities, adequate employment training and placement services and amenities at prices they can afford;

C. Local revenues, as supplemented by federal and state sources, do not provide an adequate source of funding to meet local needs for housing, child care and public facilities, adequate employment training and placement services and amenities;

D. Certain development projects create an influx of new employees and their families to the City, and thus generate additional need for affordable housing, child care and public facilities, adequate employment training and placement services and amenities;

E. Many potential employees are unable to accept moderately-paying jobs because of a lack of childcare facilities or the cost of obtaining adequate child care. This, in turn, results in increased social and economic costs to the City;

F. In addition, such development projects create individual and cumulative impacts, including changes in, and in many cases deterioration of, the visual environment; an increase in noise, air and water pollution levels; new and increased traffic and parking impacts; power, sewer and other utility demand and consumption; loss of valuable open space; and increased demands on parks, schools, libraries, police, fire and public facilities, services and amenities;

G. The increased demand for affordable housing, child care and public services, adequate employment training and placement facilities and amenities, and the other impacts generated by development projects, unless mitigated, are detrimental to the City’s public health, safety and general welfare;

H. The public policy of the City of Berkeley, as reflected by the City’s master plan and housing element, is (1) to make an adequate supply of housing available to all economic segments of the community, (2) to provide adequate municipal services and facilities, and (3) to control the design and operation of development projects to insure their compatibility within adjacent residential areas. (Ord. 6179-NS § 2, 1993)