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DrainageSet by special district feeCitation ACFC&WCD Zone 7 Ord. No. 2009-01; Ord. Nos. 2010-01 and 2012-01 App. A-Revised

Zone 7 Flood Protection and Storm Water Drainage Development Impact Fee

Levied by Alameda County Flood Control & Water Conservation District, Zone 7 (Zone 7 Water Agency) on new development in Dublin. Collected at building permit.

Not priced for this house. This charge is real, adopted and collected, and it is left out of Dublin's figure for one reason: it is levied per sq ft of impervious surface, and a typical home does not fix that quantity. That is not the same as a zero. The fee is owed; what is missing is the number to multiply by, and inventing one would price this house with more confidence and less truth. Every published rate is in the table below.

The record

Why it exists

“The purpose of this Ordinance is to adopt updated development impact fees and a related development impact fee report to address new developments' proportionate share of costs to implement flood protection and storm water drainage elements of Zone 7's Stream Management Master Plan and in doing so, to provide for the means to fund and finance adequate public infrastructure, improvements and facilities made necessary by the impacts created by new development in the Zone 7 Service Area comprised of the Cities of Dublin, Pleasanton, Livermore and unincorporated Eastern Alameda County.”

Ord. No. 2009-01, 2009-03-18, SECTION 1: PURPOSE AND AUTHORITY, p. 2 · source document ↗
What it pays for

“A Flood Protection and Storm Water Drainage Development Impact Fee ("Fee") is hereby established to be levied upon any new Development Project located within the Zone 7 Service Area. The Fee shall be used to pay costs associated with the planning, design, lands and rights-of-way acquisition, environmental review, permitting, construction and installation costs, fees and expenses of and for Drainage Projects.”

Ord. No. 2009-01, 2009-03-18, SECTION 5, subsection 1 · source document ↗
Where it applies

“Zone 7 Service Area" means the area comprised of the Cities of Dublin, Pleasanton, Livermore and unincorporated areas of eastern Alameda County and as described in the Development Impact Fee Report.”

Ord. No. 2009-01, 2009-03-18, SECTION 4: DEFINITIONS, subsection 15 · source document ↗
When it was adopted

2009-03-18

“Adopted by the Board of Directors of the Alameda County Flood Control & Water Conservation District, Zone 7 on the 18 Day of March, 2009 by the following called vote: AYES: DIRECTORS FIGUERS, GRECI, KALTHOFF, PALMER, QUIGLEY, STEVENS NOES: NONE ABSENT: DIRECTOR MYERS EXCUSED: NONE”

ORDINANCE NO. 2009-01, "AN ORDINANCE OF ALAMEDA COUNTY FLOOD CONTROL & WATER CONSERVATION DISTRICT, ZONE 7 ESTABLISHING A FLOOD PROTECTION AND STORM WATER DRAINAGE DEVELOPMENT IMPACT FEE", adopted 2009-03-18, signature page, p. 14; SECTION 14 EFFECTIVE DATE on p. 13 reads "This ordinance shall take effect 60 days following the date of adoption by the Zone 7 Board of Directors." · source document ↗
Who adopted it

Ordinance No. 2009-01

“Adopted by the Board of Directors of the Alameda County Flood Control & Water Conservation District, Zone 7 on the 18 Day of March, 2009 by the following called vote: AYES: DIRECTORS FIGUERS, GRECI, KALTHOFF, PALMER, QUIGLEY, STEVENS NOES: NONE ABSENT: DIRECTOR MYERS EXCUSED: NONE”

ORDINANCE NO. 2009-01, "AN ORDINANCE OF ALAMEDA COUNTY FLOOD CONTROL & WATER CONSERVATION DISTRICT, ZONE 7 ESTABLISHING A FLOOD PROTECTION AND STORM WATER DRAINAGE DEVELOPMENT IMPACT FEE", adopted 2009-03-18, signature page, p. 14; SECTION 14 EFFECTIVE DATE on p. 13 reads "This ordinance shall take effect 60 days following the date of adoption by the Zone 7 Board of Directors." · source document ↗
When it is paid

at building permit

“A. Unless otherwise set forth herein, the Fee for all Development Projects shall be due and payable at the time of issuance of Building Permit.”

Ord. No. 2009-01, 2009-03-18, SECTION 6: COLLECTION OF FEES, subsection 1 · source document ↗
Who collects it

the city or county building department with jurisdiction — for this parcel, the City of Dublin

“Fees provided for herein shall be collected by the General Manager or the city or county building department with jurisdiction.”

Ord. No. 2009-01, 2009-03-18, SECTION 6: COLLECTION OF FEES, subsection 2 · source document ↗
Who is exempt

“No fee shall be collected under the following circumstances: A. For any building, structure, or improvement installed or constructed in substantially the same location and surface area as a previously existing building, structure or improvement when such new building, structure, or improvement is being reconstructed, constructed or installed as replacement for the previously existing building, structure or improvement provided that the amount of Impervious Surface area in the before and after condition is the same or less.”

Ord. No. 2009-01, 2009-03-18, SECTION 9: EXEMPTIONS, subsection 2 · source document ↗
Credits and offsets

“When a Developer who is required to pay the Development Impact Fee under this Ordinance constructs a Drainage Project identified in the SMMP and dedicates and conveys the completed improvement to Zone 7, a credit for the corresponding Fee may be granted by Zone 7. Zone 7 will on a case-by-case basis, negotiate a separate Credit Agreement with the Developer and any such credit shall be offset, on a proportionate basis, without interest, the corresponding Fee to be paid pursuant to this Ordinance. Any fee credits granted by Zone 7 pursuant to a Credit Agreement shall be an obligation of Zone 7 that runs with the subject Development Project land and inures to the benefit of each successor in interest of the original landowner until full credit has been received. A development impact fee credit cannot be assigned or transferred by an owner or Developer.”

Ord. No. 2009-01, 2009-03-18, SECTION 8: REIMBURSEMENTS TO DEVELOPER FOR CONSTRUCTION OF FACILITIES, subsection 3 · source document ↗
How it changes

“On March 17, 2010, the Zone 7 Board of Directors adopted Ordinance No. 2010-01 to amend the Flood Protection and Storm Water Drainage Development Impact Fee Schedule ("Schedule"). In approving the Schedule, Zone 7 approved an escalating Development Impact Fee with graduated increases to take effect on January 1st of each year from 2011 through 2012. (See Ordinance No. 2010-01, Appendix A)”

ORDINANCE NO. 2012-01, adopted 2012-01-18, SECTION 1: BACKGROUND, PURPOSE AND AUTHORITY, p. 1 · source document ↗

Every published rate

RateBasisEffectiveAmount
per sq ft of impervious surface 1 Jan 2026 $1.00
the line this rate was read from

“This letter is to inform Zone 7's development community that the Flood Protection and Storm Water Drainage Development Impact Fee (DIF) for 2026 will remain at $1.00 per square foot of new impervious area.”

Zone 7 Water Agency letter, December 22, 2025, Subject: "2026 Update for Development Impact Fee for Flood Protection and Storm Water Drainage", opening paragraph, p. 1 — running text, NOT a table, so there is no caption/column/row on this instance; the same $1.00 is printed in tabular form in the AB1600 report and in the worksheet's office-use block, both transcribed with their captions, column headings and row labels in notes · source document ↗

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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