Water Capacity Fee

“Fees and exactions required of a development pay for public facilities associated with a residential development. The City of Shafter charges two types of fees: development impact fees and planning processing fees.”

“Water Capital Improvement Fund - This fund was established to account for the impact fees charged to developers for the improvements that will become necessary to keep pace with the demands placed on existing plant assets. This allows for an incremental charge for existing capacity to be established that will build additional plant capacity in staged phases.”

“The City of Shafter development fee structure is provided below in Table IV-4. The Richland School District exempts housing for seniors (ages 55 or older) from paying school impact fees. All of these fees have been developed in accordance with the Mitigation Fee Act. The fee structure incentivizes effective use of services and compact development in that residential development in the City Core area is generally subject to lower development impact fees than residential development in Southeast Shafter due to the existing developed infrastructure and lower cost of providing services in the City Core area.”

at building permit

“Planning-related fees are collected at time of project application submittal; development impact fees are collected at the time of building permit issuance and are primarily assessed based upon a per unit/lot basis.”

City of Shafter, the agency that levies it

“An approved site plan is sent to the Building Division after corrections are submitted and approved, fees are collected and verification of payment of school fees, development impact fees per Ordinance, utility connections; the Building Division then issues construction permit upon payment of permit fees; and,”

“Replacement Unit (no new connections) | 0 | X | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 ... Remodel | 0 | X | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 ... Annex Existing Unit to City | -- | -- | 0 | -- | -- | 0 ... 0 = No Fee Required; X = Fee Required ... Existing units annexed into the City are assessed only for water and sewer impacts and meter fees if connections to City services are made.”