For City Council Meeting and Rialto Utility Authority [December 11, 2018]
TO: Honorable Mayor and City Council and Rialto Utility Authority Board
APPROVAL: Ahmad R. Ansari, Interim City Administrator
FROM: Thomas J. Crowley, P.E., Utilities Manager
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Request City Council/Rialto Utility Authority Conduct a Public Hearing to Consider Adoption of the Updated Water and Sewer Development Impact Fees and Following the Close of the Public Hearing, Adopt City Council Resolution No. 7436 and RUA Resolution No. 06-18 Approving the Water and Sewer Development Impact Fee Update by FG Solutions dated September 2018. POWERPOINT
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BACKGROUND:
Development Impact Fees [DIF(s)] are charges imposed by local governmental agencies for the purpose of defraying all or a portion of the cost of public facilities needed to serve development projects. Government Code Sections 66000-66025 (the "Mitigation Fee Act") establishes the procedural framework for adopting development impact fees.
A DIF is not a tax, special assessment or rate increase on existing development, but is only imposed upon new development as a mitigation measure. DIFs are a one-time charge to new applicants for service representing a proportionate share of the cost of facilities necessary to provide system capacity to a new development. The DIFs must be reasonably related to the demand for public services created by the development. The power to exact DIFs arises from the City's duty to protect the community's public health, safety and welfare.
From 1989-1990, the City of Rialto adopted Ordinances establishing DIFs for various public facilities, including but not limited to, general municipal, police, fire, park, storm drains, water and sewer. The City imposes the DIFs to mitigate the demands that new development places upon the City's public facilities. The enacting Ordinances provide that the amount of the DIFs are to be set by Resolution, and may be increased by the City Council based...
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