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Recommendation to authorize City Attorney to prepare an ordinance to establish a public safety impact fee and a resolution to set the fee amount for City Council adoption based on the recommendations in the attached report.
DISCUSSION
On June 7, 2005 the City Council requested that a nexus study be prepared to begin the process of implementing a public safety impact fee for new development. New development increases the demand for public safety facilities and impact fees helpdefray the cost for these facilities. Jurisdictions throughout California have enacted impact fees to offset new development impacts on public safety, parks , infrastructure (streets , lighting, landscaping), affordable housing, day care , public art, and utilities.Based on a March 2004 survey conducted by the Community Development
Department, there are eleven jurisdictions in California with public safety impact fees. The "Mitigation Fee Act" contained in California government code Section 66000-66025 requires that prior to implementing an impact fee, a study needs to be conducted demonstrating the linkage between the fee and the impact new development will have on public safety facilities. The revenue collected from the impact fee is restricted to funding public safety facilities that will serve new
development. Any existing public safety facility deficiencies must be funded by nonimpact fee funding sources. The consulting firm , MuniFinancial , was selected to conduct the Public Safety Impact Fee Study and to make recommendations on the appropriate fee to collect in order to
mitigate the impact. A summary of their methodology and results are described below and the full report is attached. Methodology -The study determined the development impact fee by: (1) using demographicinformation to prepare growth projections; (2) identifying facility deficiencies by taking
inventory of the existing faciliies and identifying specific planned facilities; (3) determining the amount and cost of...
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