CITY COUNCIL STAFF REPORT
MEETING DATE: JUNE 17, 2015
PREPARED BY: Chris Ghione, Community Services Director
Scott Creer, Senior Engineer/Public Works
APPROVED BY: City Manager
TITLE
REESTABLISHMENT OF RECREATION CENTER AND ADJUSTMENT TO TRAFFIC IMPACT FEES
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RECOMMENDATION(S)
RECOMMENDATION
1. Open and close public hearing; and
2. Adopt a Resolution adjusting the City's Traffic Impact Fee and initiating the City's Recreation Center Impact Fee.
BODY
COUNCIL PRIORITIES, GOALS & STRATEGIES:
Ongoing Priorities
Enhancing public safety
Supporting youth
2015 Focus Areas
Infrastructure Funding and Advocacy
REPORT NARRATIVE:
The General Plan requires the City to update periodically the schedule of development impact fees authorized by State law (AB 1600) to address the impacts of growth on City infrastructure. At this time, City staff is recommending adjustment to the Traffic Impact Fee and the reestablishment of the Recreation Center Impact Fee. The City engaged an independent financial consultant, Willdan Financial Services, to examine these specific development impact fees.
Impact fees provide the financial means for the City to build future infrastructure that would be required to service future growth. Developers are the sole payers of impact fees as it would be inherently unfair to ask current residents and businesses to pay for infrastructure needed to service future residents and businesses. Willdan's study provides the necessary analysis to match the impact fees paid to the fair share of infrastructure to be built.
For purposes of the Traffic Impact Fee program, only the financing of arterial roadways is considered. All other smaller roadways, such as collectors and residential streets, are built by the developers as a condition of their development and would not be included in the Traffic Impact Fee program. Therefore, only arterial roadways are paid for by the program. The Traffic Impa...
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