Chapter 16.27 — MITIGATION OF LOCAL SCHOOL IMPACTION

In addition to the requirements of Chapter 16.26, the Boards of Trustees of both the Corona-Norco Unified School District and the Alvord Unified School District have requested assistance to help ameliorate what they assert to be the adverse effects of new residential developments on their educational facilities and services. This Council finds that, in the absence of such assistance from developers of new residential subdivisions within the City of Corona, the CoronaNorco and Alvord Unified School Districts will not have sufficient financial and other resources to provide adequate educational facilities and services to this city’s residents, and that therefore, without such mitigating assistance, such new residential developments would be inconsistent with the city’s General Plan, would not comply with the California Environmental Quality Act and would be inimical to the health and general welfare of city residents. (`78 Code, § 16.27.010.) (Ord. 1739 § 1 (part), 1984.)

This Council also finds that new residential growth with proper mitigation of educational and other impacts can be beneficial to this city’s existing economy and residents. (`78 Code, § 16.27.020.) (Ord. 1739 § 1 (part), 1984.)

This Council therefore establishes the following policy. No tentative tract map, parcel map, conditional use permit, planned unit development or other project requiring environmental review which provides for new residential dwelling units shall be approved in the city unless and until its developers and either the Corona-Norco or the Alvord Unified School District have agreed in writing to a means by which the impaction caused by the construction and occupation of such project will be adequately mitigated and that any such subdivision or other permit for development approved by the Planning Commission be so conditioned to require such mitigation. (`78 Code, § 16.27.030.) (Ord. 1739 § 1 (part), 1984.)

Nothing herein shall be construed as a delegation of the Council’s power and responsibility to determine the issue of mitigation of adverse environmental effects. The Council specifically reserves all rights provided to it by law, including the right to determine from time to time, by resolution, the maximum dollar amount per residential unit which may be required to be paid as mitigation hereunder, the right to determine any class of residential units to be exempted from the requirement of such mitigation because of special factual circumstances or the right to establish varying amounts of fees for certain types of development because of special factual circumstances. (`78 Code, § 16.27.040.) (Ord. 1739 § 1 (part), 1984.)

The City Council reserves the right to suspend the operation of this chapter during any period in which the CoronaNorco or Alvord Unified School District fails to:

(A) Establish and maintain a separate accounting fund in which all payments received as mitigation of school impaction shall be held inviolate until properly expended;

• (B) Expend such funds only for the construction of school capital facilities; and

(C) Account periodically (at least once each year) for all sums received for school impact mitigation, all sums expended from such mitigation fund and all amounts remaining in the fund.

(`78 Code, § 16.27.050.) (Ord. 1739 § 1 (part), 1984.)

Unless otherwise ordered by resolution of this City Council, if mitigation hereunder takes the form of payment of money, such payment shall not be required in excess of the amount then being collected by the school district within its unincorporated areas pursuant to the policies of Riverside County.

(`78 Code, § 16.27.060.) (Ord. 1739 § 1 (part), 1984.)

The provisions of this chapter shall become operative at the beginning of the business day on November 5, 1984. (`78 Code, § 16.27.070.) (Ord. 1739 § 1 (part), 1984.)