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Park and impact fees for new homes in Paradise

Paradise's own rules on park and impact fees for new homes, with the code text for every value.

Each rule below links to the section of the Paradise Municipal Code it was read from, with the code text one click away (checked October 2026). General information, not legal advice.

What Paradise's code says

Paradise code What Paradise's code adds
Exemptions
  • Exempt: changes to an existing building that add no units, keep the same use, or add no public service impact.
    Applies: May be exempt from some or all town impact fees, as the community development director decides.
    § 3.40.100 · code text
    Alterations or renovations of an existing building or structure where no additional dwelling units are created; or where the occupancy use is not changed; or where the impacts of the work covered by the permit will not result in additional impacts upon the town's public facilities or public services as determined by the community development director;
  • Exempt: replacing a damaged or destroyed building with no new units, no use change, or no added public service impact.
    § 3.40.100 · code text
    The replacement of a destroyed or partially destroyed or damaged building or structure with a new building or structure where no additional dwelling units are created; where the occupancy use is not changed; or where the impacts of the work covered by the permit will not result in additional impacts upon the town's public facilities or public services;
  • Exempt: open decks, patio covers, gazebos, retaining walls, fences, sign structures, detached structures under 120 square feet, open shade roofs.
    § 3.40.100 · code text
    Building permit applications for authorization to construct; open residential decks and deck or patio covers, gazebos, retaining walls and fences, sign structures, detached buildings or structures of less than one hundred twenty square feet in areal size, and all shade or partial shade roof structures that do not include solid roof coverings and that allow through passage of precipitation;
  • Projects in a mapped no-fee area are exempt from the storm drainage impact fee only.
    Applies: Areas shown as a no-fee area on the town's storm drainage basin maps.
    § 3.40.100 · code text
    Any development project proposed to be established within a geographic location identified as a "no fee area" upon the drainage basin maps of the Master Storm Drainage Study and Facilities Plan 1980, Paradise, California, as adopted and subsequently amended by the town council, shall be exempt from the imposition of storm drainage facilities development impact fee only.

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