Signal Hill Municipal Code Ch. 21.40 Park and Recreation Impact Fees

The purpose of this chapter is to provide a means by which the city can collect funds for the acquisition, improvement, and expansion of park and recreation facilities. This fee shall be known as the park and recreation impact fee.

(Ord. 91-06-1100 § 1 (part))

The applicant for any development project which results or will result in the construction or reconstruction of chargeable space not otherwise subject to an exemption under this title shall be required to pay a park and recreation impact fee of thirty-five cents per square foot of chargeable space, payable at the time of the final inspection or certificate of occupancy, whichever is later. This fee shall be adjusted each January from and after its effective date by the amount of increase in the consumer price index, "All Urban Consumers" for the preceding twelve-month period as published by the United States Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics for the Los Angeles-Anaheim-Riverside metropolitan area, or such other price index deemed approximate by city council in the event such consumer price index is discontinued. The annual adjustment shall be made in connection with the preparation and review of the city's annual budget.

(Ord. 91-06-1100 § 1 (part))

A. The applicant for any development project which results or will result in the construction of a residential housing unit, not otherwise subject to an exemption under this title, shall be required to pay a park and recreation impact fee of an amount as follows:

Single-family dwelling unit $11,200/unit

Multifamily dwelling unit 7,700/unit

(Ord. 91-06-1100 § 1 (part))

In addition to those exemptions stated in Section 21.04.050, the park and recreation impact fee shall not apply to new construction of residences on assessable lot area, which residences are sold and leased to low and very low income persons and which are sold or leased at rates affordable to very low and low income persons. To qualify for this exemption, the applicant must submit an agreement in a form acceptable to the city attorney binding the development project to guarantee that the assessable lot area shall remain affordable to low and very low income persons for a period of not less than twenty years, and making the city a party to the covenant such that the restriction is enforceable by the city. The agreement shall be executed by the owner of the property upon which the development project is situated, and shall be recorded against the property in the office of the county recorder.

(Ord. 91-06-1100 § 1 (part))

The full payment of all impact fees imposed under this chapter shall exempt the applicant from any liability for payment of fees on the same development project pursuant to Section 18.32.120 of this code. In the event that the fees set forth in this chapter are not imposed upon or are otherwise inapplicable to a development project, the applicant for that development project shall remain fully responsible for payment of all required fees under Section 18.32.120.

(Ord. 91-06-1100 § 1 (part))