California law recognizes that growth due to development can create impacts to public entities that provide public services required by the development. Such impacts are required to be addressed under the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) and to be mitigated where feasible. State law provides procedures for cities and counties to adopt development mitigation fees as a way to secure funding for capital facilities and equipment that are needed in order to meet the service requirements from new development (reference is to Mitigation Fee Act, Cal. Gov’t. Code §§ 66000 – 66024.) It is the purpose and intent of this chapter to provide for the establishment and imposition of development fees in accordance with the provisions of the Mitigation Fee Act in order to address the impacts created on the county and other local governmental entities. It is the intent of this chapter that new development pays its fair share to maintain the preexisting level of service, thereby mitigating the impact of development on local governmental entities’ ability to provide such service.