Road fee programs (areas of benefit)

“California Constitution Article 11, Section 7 and Government Code Sections 50029 and 66484.3 permit the establishment of local ordinances to require payment of fees as a condition of approval of a final map or as a condition of issuing a building permit for purposes of defraying the actual or estimated costs of constructing bridges over waterways, railways, freeways and canyons, or constructing major thoroughfares.”

“MAJOR THOROUGHFARES & BRIDGES ROAD FEE PROGRAMS”

“The County of Orange has six active OC Road Fee Programs. Each OC Road Fee Program has a specific Area of Benefit (AOB) that determines if an OC road fee is associated with the building permit application.”

“Pursuant to the above provisions of the Government Code, the Board of Supervisors adopted Section 7-9-316 of the Orange County Codified Ordinances providing for the establishment of major thoroughfare and bridge construction fees to be paid by subdividers and building permit applicants in the County of Orange.”

“OC Road Fee(s) are applied at the time of the building permit issuance for commercial properties and Final Inspection / Certificate of Occupancy for residential properties.”

“MAJOR THOROUGHFARES & BRIDGES ROAD FEE PROGRAMS ... 601 N Ross Street, Santa Ana, CA 92701 ... OCRoadFee@pw.oc.gov”

“All tax exempt properties/uses shall be exempt from the payment of SCRIP Fees. The final determination of whether a property is exempt will be based upon verification of a property tax exemption for those specified categories on the latest Assessor's roll as defined for Orange County by the State of California. The construction of government-owned facilities or utilities shall be exempt from payment of SCRIP Fees to the extent that the facilities will not be used for generating revenue or commercial purposes.”

“Development project proponents will be eligible to receive credit for (a) monies paid to SCRIP as a deposit in advance of the issuance of building permits (see No. 6 above), and (b) SCRIP improvements which they are required to construct pursuant to the provisions of development agreements, subdivision approvals or other discretionary permits/approvals. These credits ('SCRIP Fee Credits') may be used in lieu of the payment of SCRIP Fees in order to obtain building permits.”

“The estimated costs of improvements and the SCRIP Fees will be automatically adjusted, periodically, based on the California Construction Cost Index (CCI Index) prepared and published by the State Department of Transportation.”