Nevada City Municipal Code Ch. 16.08 Development Fees

The city council finds and declares that:

A. New development within areas to be annexed to the city will create a burden on the circulation system within Nevada City and the urban area, as defined in the Nevada County Regional Transportation Plan.

B. Nevada City is currently redrafting its general plan and the draft of that general plan requires that new development contribute to the implementation of needed traffic improvements.

C. All development, including the erection, construction or alteration of any residential or nonresidential building within any area to be annexed to Nevada City shall be consistent with the general plan and the new general plan once it is revised.

D. It is necessary that a development fee be collected to provide street improvements, signalization, street lighting and other circulation improvements to offset the burden on the circulation system caused by the cumulative impact of new development within newly annexed territory.

E. The fee system set forth in the Nevada County Regional Transportation Plan 1980 represents a reasonable method for determining traffic development fees and the fees set forth in that plan for the urban area are hereby approved and shall be adopted by a resolution of the city council. The development fee may be amended from time to time by resolution of the city council.

F. The above development fees shall be used to construct road improvements identified in the Regional Transportation Plan and those road improvements identified in Nevada City's official response to the Regional Transportation Plan. The fees shall be used to improve those areas of the circulation system within the urban area as defined in the Regional Transportation Plan 1980 which are most impacted by the new development for which a building permit or conditional use permit is being sought.

G. This chapter is adopted pursuant to the police powers of the city, Article 11, Section 7 of the California Constitution and pursuant to the appropriate provisions of the Planning and Zoning law of the state, Government Code Section 65000 et seq.

(Ord. 85-4 § 1, 1985)

A. No building permits shall be issued for the erection, alteration or construction of any nonresidential building, or construction or erection of a residential building, or alteration of a residential building which creates additional units unless a development fee as set forth in this chapter, has been paid.

B. In the event that state laws require that the traffic development fees be collected at the time of the issuance of a certificate of occupancy then, in that event, the fee shall be due and payable before a certificate of occupancy is issued.

(Ord. 89-4 § 1, 1989: Ord. 85-4 § 2, 1985)