REPORT TO COUNCIL
SUBJECT
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Public Hearing: Action on Resolutions Approving the Sanitary Sewer Master Plan Update 2025 Report, Sanitary Sewer Conveyance Fee Nexus Study, and Amending the FY 2025/26 Municipal Fee Schedule to Update the Sanitary Sewer Outlet Charge - Conveyance Fee Rates
Report
BACKGROUND
Impact fees are governed by State law (Assembly Bill 1600, 1989, Government Code Section 66000) and allow a City to charge one-time fees to new developments to finance capital facilities and infrastructure needed to serve those developments. Impact fees are established based on a reasonable relationship (i.e. nexus) between the impacts caused by new development and the improvements to mitigate those impacts that will be funded by the fee. These fees cannot be used to pay for the cost of existing deficiencies and are distinct from taxes and special assessments.
Sanitary Sewer Conveyance Fee
In 2007, a Conveyance Fee component of the Sanitary Sewer Outlet Charge was approved by City Council (Resolution 07-7415) to provide funding for capacity improvements to the sanitary sewer system due to intensification and densification of land uses permitted by the General Plan and associated development land use amendments. Updates to the fee were made in 2009 and 2010 through the following actions:
* Resolution 09-7643 approved in June 2009 updated the fee to include costs of bond issuance to fund and implement projects
* Resolution 10-7741 approved in June 2010 updated the fee with consideration of the following: a) resolution of other funding opportunities (i.e. redevelopment and stimulus funds); b) incorporation of latest land use information from the General Plan update finalized in 2010; and c) adjustments to the capacity project improvements listing resulting from a) and b).
In 2022, an Updated Sanitary Sewer Outlet Charge - Conveyance Fee Report was approved by City Council (Resolution 22-9133). The report updated the list of projects funded by the fee and r...
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