San Ramon Municipal Code Art. 1 Southern Contra Costa Regional and Subregional Fees for Road Improvements

This chapter provides for the imposition of fees to be collected for the purpose of funding road improvements from proposed developments located within the city of San Ramon and within the Southern Contra Costa (SCC) fee areas (SCC Regional and SCC Subregional). A. This Chapter is enacted, in part, pursuant to Government Code Section 66484 and pursuant to the procedure set forth in Government Code Sections 54986, 65091, 66016, 66017, and 66484. All required notices have been properly given and public hearings held. B. The purpose of the fees described in this Chapter is to generate funds to finance improvements to certain major thoroughfares in the Southern Contra Costa area. The fees will be used to finance the road improvements listed in the development program report. There is a reasonable relationship between the fees and the types of development projects that are subject to the fees in that the development projects will generate additional traffic on the major thoroughfares in the Southern Contra Costa area, thus creating a need to expand, extend or improve the existing major thoroughfares and a need to construct new major thoroughfares to mitigate adverse traffic and infrastructure impacts that would otherwise result from such development projects. The fees imposed hereunder are in addition to the traffic impact mitigation fee provided for under Chapter II, DIVISION C4 of this code in that each fee is utilized to fund different roadway improvements. C. The Southern Contra Costa ("SCC") fee areas are areas for which development programs have been designed to improve the capacity and safety of the arterial and regional road network through the establishment of a series of traffic mitigation fee ordinances. The SCC joint exercise of powers agreement ("JEPA") is between Contra Costa County ("county"), the town of Danville ("town") and the city of San Ramon ("city") and is an agreement concerning the collection and distribution of these fees. The development program report, as well as the JEPA, detail the basis for the collection of these fees. Similar ordinances implementing the JEPA have been adopted by the county and town. D. The Dougherty Valley settlement agreement between the town of Danville, Contra Costa County and the city of San Ramon called for several processes through which development within Dougherty Valley would be governed and the impact of such development would be mitigated. The SCC JEPA establishes one such process, a traffic mitigation fee program to finance road improvements identified in the settlement agreement as necessary to mitigate the traffic impact created by development within Dougherty Valley. The Dougherty Valley fee is one component of the SCC fees and is assessed to all development that occurs in Dougherty Valley. The total cost of the projects identified in the settlement agreement is approximately thirty-six million dollars. The fair share [as determined by the South County Traffic Study Year 2010 Traffic Impacts for City of San Ramon, CA | Municipal Code 395

Additional Land Use Alternatives ("South County traffic study")] attributable to development within Dougherty Valley is approximately thirty-one million dollars. The remaining unfunded cost of the projects identified in the settlement agreement is approximately five million dollars. Besides identifying the project cost share attributable to development in Dougherty Valley, the South County traffic study also identified the responsibility for new development in the area outside of Dougherty Valley. This share of the funding responsibility, along with the estimates of development potential in the area (regions within the county, town and city) determine the SCC Subregional fee, another component of the SCC fees. (Ord. 288 § 1 (part), 1996)

The following fees set forth in Table C4-27 to fund road improvements are adopted for the SCC fee areas.

Table C4-27
SCC SUBREGIONAL FEE
Land Use Fee
Single family residential $2,128 per dwelling unit
Other $2,128 per peak hour trip
SCC REGIONAL FEE
Land Use Fee
Single family residential $792 per dwelling unit
Commercial $0.79 per sq. ft. gross floor area
Office $1.27 per sq. ft. gross floor area
Other $792 per peak hour trip

The entire city of San Ramon is located within both the regional fee and subregional fee areas. The boundaries of the SCC fee areas which include unincorporated area and portions of the town of Danville, are established by the SCC JEPA. (Ord. 288 § 1 (part), 1996)

While the SCC fee areas are in effect, the project cost estimates shall be reviewed periodically. The fee schedule of Table C4-27 shall adjust on March 1st by the change in the Engineering News-Record Construction Cost Index for the San Francisco Bay Area for the period ending December 31st of the preceding calendar year. (Ord. 288 § 1 (part), 1996)