Park and Recreational Facilities Impact Fee

“The purpose of this article is to establish a traffic facility construction and fee requirement, an urban design facilities construction and fee requirement, a public facilities construction and fee requirement, a park and recreational facilities construction and fee requirement, and a Northeast Area facility construction and fee requirement that impose upon future development projects an equitable share of the cost of mitigating future public facilities demands created by such projects. (Ord. No. 2013-11, §2.)”

“The City will therefore require developers to construct public facilities in accordance with specific capital programs or pay fees that will be used to construct such facilities pursuant to those specific capital programs.”

“Except as otherwise provided in this article, a developer of a property shall pay the following development impact fees pursuant to the procedures set forth in this article and in an amount established by resolution of the City Council: a. Traffic Impact Fee. b. Urban Design Impact Fee. c. Public Facilities Impact Fee. d. Park and Recreational Facilities Impact Fee.”

2013

“WHEREAS, the City Council adopted Ordinance 2013-11 to add Article XI to Chapter 25 of the City of Fairfield Municipal Code to codify provisions for impact fees”

Ordinance No. 2013-11

“WHEREAS, the City Council adopted Ordinance 2013-11 to add Article XI to Chapter 25 of the City of Fairfield Municipal Code to codify provisions for impact fees”

at building permit issuance, by Fairfield Municipal Code s. 25.1506

“Fairfield Municipal Code s. 25.1506, "Payment of fees": "Pursuant to California Government Code Section 66007(b), the City has established reserve accounts and appropriated funds to those accounts ... Therefore, fees required by this article shall be paid at the time of issuance of a building permit for a development."”

City of Fairfield, Community Development - Building Safety Division

“NOTE: The fee schedule mentioned above only includes the fees that are collected with the building permit.”

“A developer shall be entitled to a credit to the amount of fees required by this article to the extent that the developer constructs, pursuant to City standards and requirements, public facilities that were included in the project lists used to determine the fees established pursuant to this article. 1.Credits shall be earned when the Developer has entered into an improvement agreement with the City to construct such public facility. The City is not obligated to enter into such improvement agreement with the Developer.”