HabitatCitation BMC 15.78not charged here

Metropolitan Bakersfield HCP mitigation fee

Recorded for Bakersfield so that the blank can be relied on: this charge was looked for and is not levied here. Authorized under the Adopted HCP/NCCP (Natural Community Conservation Planning Act, Fish & Game Code Sec. 2800 et seq.; federal ESA Sec. 10(a)), imposed by each member agency as a Mitigation Fee Act fee.

Bakersfield does not charge this. This is a confirmed absence, not a missing figure: the schedule was retrieved and read, and no such charge is levied. It is recorded rather than left out, so that a nil is never mistaken for an amount we could not find — or for one we never looked for.

The record

We haven’t read the documents behind this fee yet, so this section is blank rather than guessed.

1,041 of 1,321 fees carry a quoted record; the largest were read first.

Every published rate

Rate	Basis	Effective	Amount
superseded	per gross acre	1 Jan 2023	$2,145

Source documents

–Adopting resolution not found
–Nexus study not found
–Annual fee report (AB 1600) not found
–Published fee schedule not found
–Official boundary map not found
↗Source used for the rates

Not found means we couldn’t locate it, not that it doesn’t exist. Every linked document is archived here, so a dead link isn’t a dead citation.

Where this comes from

Facts with a quoted source: 0 of 10 record fields
Read on: 9 Sep 2026
Kind of document: other
Jurisdiction: Bakersfield

What “none” means, and what this fee rests on

High: We read this straight from the document that sets the fee: the city's ordinance, the council resolution, or the official fee schedule. This is the strongest kind of source, because the number and the rule come from the agency that charges it, in its own words.
Medium: We read this from an official document, but not the one that sets the fee. It might be a staff report, a study the fee was based on, or another agency's summary of it. These are usually right, but they can lag behind a change or describe a fee differently from the document that sets it. We also use medium when the agency's own documents disagree with each other.
Low: We could not find this in a current official document. It may come from an older version of the schedule, a secondary source, or from how the agency appears to apply the fee in practice. Treat it as a lead and check with the agency before relying on it.
Derived: Not read from a document at all. Filled in from the type of fee, such as which law authorizes it. Shown separately so it is never mistaken for a quotation.

Cite this page

Source: Development Fee Index, via DevFeeFinder · retrieved 9 Sep 2026

Development Fee Index, “Metropolitan Bakersfield HCP mitigation fee, Bakersfield”. Figures retrieved 9 Sep 2026 from the documents listed above.

About these figures

Quoted, not summarized. Every amount and fact on this page is copied from the official document it links to. If we couldn’t find something in a document, we leave it blank instead of guessing.

Before any discounts. Some fees offer credits, waivers or phase-ins. They’re listed above but not subtracted, because whether you qualify depends on your project.

Check the date. Fees change. This page shows what was in force on the date at the top, with a link to the document that set it, so you can confirm the current amount yourself. How all of this is put together.

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