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HEARING - The Board is asked to consider a request from the El Dorado Hills Community Services District to adopt and authorize the Chair to sign Resolution 126-2024 increasing development impact mitigation fees for parks and recreation by 2.6% based on the change in the Annual Consumer Price Index Adjustment for Calendar Year 2023.
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DISCUSSION / BACKGROUND
The California Mitigation Fee Act (Cal. Gov. Code §§ 66000-66025) provides for the establishment of fees on new development for the purpose of mitigating the effects of development on existing public facilities. Special districts do not have statutory authority to impose these fees. As a result, the Board of Supervisors has passed an ordinance providing for the establishment of such fees on behalf of special districts. The ordinance was codified as Chapter 13.20.
Parks and recreation development impact mitigation fees were first collected on the District's behalf in 1998. The current fees are based on a Fee Nexus Study and Report (“Report”) detailing the legal and policy basis justifying the development impact mitigation fee within the District. The fee was updated in 2018, by adoption of Resolution 135-2018 (Legistar File 18-1034).
Resolution 135-2018 did not include a provision for automatic annual inflationary adjustments to the fee because any increase to the fee must be made by resolution of the Board of Supervisors at a notice public hearing, pursuant to the Mitigation Fee Act. The District recommended, and the Board has adopted, annual adjustments in the fee in 2022 of 4.9% (Resolution No. 069-2022) and in 2023 of 4.2% (Resolution No. 057-2023).
On February 8, 2024, the District adopted Resolution No. 2024-03, recommending an adjustment to the fees of 2.6%, based on the change in the Consumer Price Index for calendar year 2023, and requesting the Board of Supervisors adopt the 2.6% increase to the established impact fees as proposed.
The proposed fees are as follows:
Current Fee 2023 CPI Adj. (2.6%)
Single Family Residential: $ 13,496 $ 13,846
Multi-Family Res. & Affordable Housing $ 8,907 $ 9,139
Age-Restricted Residential $ 7,886 $ 8,091
Serrano Single Family Residential $ 7,215 $ 7,403
Serrano Multi-Family Residential $ 4,761 $ 4,885
Serrano Age-Restricted Residential $ 4,186 $ 4,295
Mobile Home Park Homes Exempt Exempt
Accessory Dwelling Units Exempt Exempt
Notice of today's public hearing was published in the Mountain Democrat on July 5, 2024 and July 12, 2024.
If approved by the Board, the revised fees will become effective 60 days following the Board's adoption of the resolution. The County Planning and Building Department currently calculates and collects the fee and will continue to do so as provided in the collection and indemnity agreement approved by the Board of Supervisors on December 19, 2017 (Legistar File 17-1355).
ALTERNATIVES
If the Board does not adopt this resolution, the existing fees would continue in effect.
OTHER DEPARTMENT / AGENCY INVOLVEMENT
County Counsel
CAO RECOMMENDATION
Approve as recommended.
FINANCIAL IMPACT
There is no direct fiscal impact to the County related to adoption of the fee other than the cost to publish the notice of the required public hearing. The calculation, collection, and disbursement of fee revenue require some County staff time, the cost of which may be recovered through an administrative fee.
CLERK OF THE BOARD FOLLOW UP ACTIONS
Forward a copy of the executed resolution to Community Development Admin and Finance (CDFA), Attn. Becky Morton.
STRATEGIC PLAN COMPONENT
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CONTACT
Tara Stout, Principal Management Analyst