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HEARING - The Board is asked to consider a request from the Cameron Park Community Services District ("District") to adopt and authorize the Chair to sign Resolution 151-2019 revising and reducing parks and recreation development impact mitigation fees for the District. (Est. Time: 10 Min.)
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DISCUSSION / BACKGROUND
The California Mitigation Fee Act (Cal. Gov. Code ยงยง 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, by the Board of Supervisors, at the request of and on behalf of special districts. The ordinance was codified as Chapter 13.20. Development impact mitigation fees were first collected on the District's behalf in 1997. The District's fee was last updated in 2007 with Legistar item 07-1216.
The District has contracted with SCI Consulting Group to review the fee and provide a nexus study report using the "Standards-Based Approach." This method uses a facility "standard" established for future development, against which facilities costs are determined based on "units of demand" or a "level of service" from a development. This approach established a generic unit cost for capacity, which is then applied to each land use type per unit of demand. This standard is not based on the cost of a specific existing or future facility, but rather on the cost of providing the current level of service for the District. The nexus study has been reviewed by County staff and appears to meet all the requirements of the California Mitigation Fee Act.
The District Board adopted the nexus study and fees at their July 17, 2019 meeting.
The current fees were established by Resolution 178-2007. The current and proposed fees are as follows:
Land Use Type Current Fe...
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