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Regular-Affiliated Agencies # 28.
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| Board of Supervisors |
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| Subject |
| Hold a public hearing and adopt resolution to revise the Development Impact Mitigation Fee on behalf of the Yolo Fire Protection District. (No general fund impact) (Nunes) |
| Recommended Action |
| Hold a public hearing and adopt resolution on behalf of the Yolo Fire Protection District to implement their updated development impact mitigation fees for fire protection services. |
| Strategic Plan Goal(s) |
Enhance and sustain the safety net
Provide fiscally sound, dynamic and responsive services |
| Reason for Recommended Action/Background |
Future residential and commercial development is projected to impact capital facilities necessary to maintain current levels of fire protection services. The development impact fee program provides necessary funds to mitigate the impacts of new development on fire district capital facilities and equipment.
The purpose of the program is to establish a fire mitigation fee that generates the funds necessary to acquire capital facilities and equipment that will maintain current levels of fire protection, emergency medical and related services necessitated by new development.
The State Development Mitigation Fee Act provides authority and framework for local agencies to establish impact mitigation fee programs. The law requires that agencies must study and provide necessary information to support the imposition of fees within the district. In January 2004, the Board of Supervisors adopted a Fire District Development Impact Mitigation Fee Ordinance that authorizes the imposition of fire development impact fees.
Based on the methodology developed by a consultant, BAE Urban Economics, the Yolo Fire Protection District (YFPD) has completed the required capital facility and equipment plans and development impact fee studies. The district has also adopted the required resolutions that declare the need to establish a fire protection impact fee program to adequately serve new development and acquire capital facilities to maintain the current levels of fire protection services. A copy of the study by BAE is attached (Attachment C).
The recommended action is to approve the impact fees through the county's fee resolution (Attachment A). The fee would take effect 60 days after adoption of the resolution by the Board of Supervisors and payment is required prior to the issuance of a building permit. YFPD has approved the necessary resolution by their board (Attachment B). The following table details the amount of the current fees, set in 2012, and lists the proposed fees for different categories.
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Current
Fee/Sq. Foot |
Proposed
Fire Component
Fee/Sq. Foot |
Medical Aid,
Traffic, Other
Component per unit |
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| Single-Family |
$0.82 |
$0.68 |
$1,965 |
Note: District will charge residential units a flat fee per unit for the "Other" component, plus a per square foot fee for the "Fire" component |
| Multifamily |
$1.46 |
$0.64 |
$1,713 |
| Mobile Homes |
$1.15 |
$0.68 |
$1,774 |
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Fire Component per 1,000 Bldg Sq.Ft. |
Medical Aid, Traffic, Other Component per 1,000 Bldg. Sq. Ft. |
Total Fees Per 1,000 Sq. Ft. |
| Retail |
$0.53 |
$618 |
$618 |
$1,236 |
| Office |
$0.90 |
$845 |
$1,132 |
$1,977 |
| Medical |
$0.62 |
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| Educational |
$0.53 |
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| Manufacturing/ Industrial |
$0.40 |
$459 |
$340 |
$799 |
| Other |
$0.28 |
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Medical, Educational and Other fees have been omitted from the 2017 fee study. The new study anticipates that there will be some non-residential projects subject to the impact fee requirements that do not fit neatly into one of the above categories, or that could fit into one of those categories, but because of its own unique characteristics, is not reasonably aligned with the characteristics assumed in the fee study. Examples of exceptional projects would be projects that have substantially higher or lower average construction costs per square foot, as compared to the valuation schedule included in Appendix A of the fee study, or projects that have substantially higher or lower employment densities (square feet of building space per employee) than assumed for retail, office, or industrial projects, on Table 1 of the study. In these cases, the fee study provides an alternate method to calculate the fees. As indicated on page 9 of the fee study, the alternate method to calculate the Fire Protection cost component is to $6.00 per $1,000 in construction valuation. The alternate method to calculate the “Other” cost component of the impact fee is to charge $679.41 per person, as indicated on page 11 of the fee study, with the number of employees discounted by 50 percent.
Staff recommends approval of the attached resolution updating the Yolo Fire Protection District development impact fees based on the 2017 fee study. |
| Collaborations (including Board advisory groups and external partner agencies) |
Fire district staff and board of commissioners
County Administrator’s Office
County Counsel |
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