Redlands Municipal Code Ch. 3.60 Public Facilities Fees

It is the purpose and intent of this chapter to implement the Redlands general plan to ensure that public facilities related to the city's civic center, corporate yard, fire department, library and police department are available concurrent with the need for such facilities caused by new development within the city. The city council further finds that a citywide public facility program is of benefit to all new development within the city. This chapter shall establish the methods of financing the construction of such civic center, corporate yard, fire and police required public facilities and related improvements. (Ord. 2661 § 4, 2007)

Whenever the following terms are used in this chapter, they shall have the meanings established by this section:

No development project shall be approved unless the city finds that public facility improvements necessary to serve the development project exist or will be constructed in compliance with the requirements of the city's public facility program. To ensure consistency with the program, the city may impose any conditions of approval to the development project which are necessary to implement the program. The requirements of this chapter are imposed as a condition of development to ensure implementation of and consistency with the city's general plan and to protect the public health, safety and welfare by ensuring that adequate public facilities and related improvements will be constructed and available to serve new development prior to or concurrently with the need. (Ord. 2661 § 4, 2007)

Public facility fees shall be collected from applicants for development projects for the purpose of constructing, improving, providing and maintaining public facilities identified in the city's public facility program in accordance with the amounts approved by the City Council. No building permit shall be issued unless the fees approved by the City Council are first paid. Fees collected as approved by the City Council shall be deposited into separate capital facilities accounts or funds in a manner to avoid any commingling of such fees with other revenues of the city and the fees shall be expended solely for the purposes for which the fees were collected. The fees required of an applicant for a development project approved by the City Council are in addition to any other means of financing public facilities or related improvements identified in the city's public facility program which may be imposed upon the applicant for the development project under the provisions of federal, state or local law. (Ord. 2962, 2024: Ord. 2661 § 4, 2007)

The public facility fees approved by the City Council shall be paid by the applicant for a development project as a condition of, and at the time of issuance of, a building permit for the development project. The City Council has determined that the approved fees will be collected for public improvements and public facilities for which an account has been established and funds appropriated and for which the city has adopted a proposed construction schedule or plan prior to the dates of final inspection or issuance of a certificate of occupancy for new development, and/or fees approved by the City Council are to reimburse the city for expenditures previously made. (Ord. 2962, 2024: Ord. 2661 § 4, 2007)

On July 1 of each fiscal year, the city's finance director, in coordination with the city's public works director, shall make annual adjustments to the specific amounts of public facilities fees approved by the City Council by a percentage equal to the percentage change in the construction cost index of the "Engineering News-Record" - twenty (20) cities annual average for the preceding twelve (12) month period. The purpose for this adjustment is to offset the effects of inflation related construction cost increases or any deflation related decreases. If this index should cease publication, the director of finance shall use any appropriate official index published by the bureau of labor statistics, or similar agency as may then exist or may then be most nearly equivalent thereto. Land costs shall also be evaluated annually and adjusted as necessary based on the current market conditions at the time. (Ord. 2962, 2024: Ord. 2661 § 4, 2007)