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HomeMy WebLinkAboutORD FOR INTRODUCTION 09-... (2)AGEF DA DATE: ORDINANCES FOR INTRODUCTION ~ NO. 2 SEPTEMBER 11, 1985 TO: FROM: SUBJECT: WILLIAM HUSTON, CITY MANAGER BOB LEDENDECKER, DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC WORKS/CITY ENGINEER MAJOR THOROUGHFARE AND BRIDGE FOR PROGRAM FOR FOOTHILL/EASTERN TRANSPORTATION CORRIDORS RECOMMENDATION Pleasure of the City Council. BACKGROUND On September 3, 1985, staff distributed the following items to the City Council for information: Draft Ordinance adopting the Joint Exercise of Powers Agreement and adopting the Major Thoroughfare and Bridge Fee Program. Draft Resolution establishing the Areas of Benefit for the Foothill/Eastern Transportation Corridor. ° Draft Copy of the Joint Powers Agreement. Copy of the Major Thoroughfare and Bridge Fee Program for the San Joaquin Hills Transportation Corridor and the Foothill/Eastern Transportation Corridors. At this meeting, the City Council approved/authorized the following items: ° Schedule of processing. ° Public Hearing date of Thursday, October 10, 1985 at 7:00 p.m. ° Public Notice format. ° Mailing of Public Notices. ° Supplemental budget appropriation of $6,500.00 for processing costs. Council also requested staff to poll the other Foothill/Eastern Corridor Joint Powers Agreement Cities to determine their response as to whether their agency would consider amending the Joint Powers Agreement to allow an Agency to have descretionary powers to waive fee requirements for commercial/industrial additions within a Redevelopment Agency. Staff was able to make contact with most of the local agencies, but received only staff responses. Any final decisions would have Bill Huston Sept. 11, 1985 Page 2 to be made by each respective City Council. A summation of these responses and established date of Public Hearings for each City is as follows: CITY RESPONSE HEARING DATE Anaheim No staff response any comments 09-24-85 should be made by City Council. Irvine Staff had no problems with change, 10-15-85 but requires Council confirmation. (Tentative) Orange Staff had no problems with change, 09-17-85 but requires Council confirmation. San Clemente Staff had no problems with change, but requires Council confirmation. 09-18-85 San Juan Capistrano No response as of this date. 09-18-85 Santa Ana Staff feels there may be problems, 10-16-85 but requires additional confirmation. {Tentative) Yorba Linda Staff had no problems with change, but requires Council confirmation. 09-16-85 DISCUSSION The attached ordinance does not address any area of the proposed change as discussed by City Council. Consequently, if Council desires, the Ordinance can be introduced on September 16th while the potential revision to the Joint Powers Agreement is reviewed and discussed further. Additionally, if the Council desires, the second reading and adopting can be completed either on October 10, 1985 after the Public Hearing or at a later meeting. It is staffs' understanding that any of the following options can be pursued after the adoption of the Joint Powers Agreement in the event it is not revised prior to execution by all Agencies. Agreement may be amended with the approval of not less than three-fourths of all members or ten total votes. City or Redevelopment Agency may be responsible for fees in lieu of developer. This would be at the descretion of the City. Bill Huston Sept. 11, 1985 Page 3 The only requested action for September 16th is the introduction of the attached Ordinance adding Section 2800 to the City Code adopting a Major Thoroughfare and Bridge Fee Program. The attached Resolution is for information only and no action is required until after the Public Hearing. B~b Ledendecker Director Public Works/City Engineer BL:$kr Attachments 1 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 2O 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 ORDINANCe..,0. 948 AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF TUSTIN ADDING SECTION 2800 TO THE CITY CODE ADOPTING A MAJOR THOROUGHFARE AND BRIDGE FEE PROGRAM WHEREAS, Government Code Section 66484.3 authorizes the City to require by ordinance the payment of a fee as a condition of approval of a final subdivision map or as a condition of issuing a building permit for the purpose of defraying the cost of constructing major thoroughfares and bridges; and WHEREAS, the City Council desires to adopt such a fee program in order to insure that future development shall pay a share of the costs of constructing transportation systems adequate to serve that development. NOW, THEREFORE, the City Council of the City of Tustin hereby ordains as follows: SECTION 1: Section 2800 is hereby added to the City Code to read in its entirety as follows: "Sec. 2800. Major Thoroughfare and Bridge Fee". Be A building permit applicant, as a condition of issuance of a building permit, shall pay a fee as hereinafter established to defray the costs of constructing bridges over waterways, railways, freeways and canyons, or constructing major thoroughfares. b. Definitions. (1) (2) (3) (4) The term 'construction' as used in this section includes preliminary studies, design, acquisition of right-of-way, administration of construction contracts, and actual construction. The term 'major thoroughfare' means those roads designated as tranportation corridors and major, primary, secondary, or commuter highways on the Master Plan of Arterial Highways, the Circulation Element of the General Plan. The primary purpose of such roads is to carry through traffic and provide a network connecting to the State highways system. 'Bridge facilities' means those locations identified in the transportation or flood control provisions of the Circulation Element or other element of the General Plan as requiring a bridge to span a waterway, a railway, freeway, or canyon. 'Area of Benefit' means a specified area wherein it has been determined that the real property located therein will benefit from the construction of a major thoroughfare or bridge project. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 2O 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 Ce f® The provisions herein for payment of a fee shall apply only if the major thoroughfare or bridge facility has been included in an element of the City's General Plan or the General Plan of the County of Orange adopted at least thirty (30) days prior to the application for a building permit and on land located within the boundaries of the area of benefit. Payment of fees shall not be required unless any major thoroughfares are in addition to, or a widening or reconstruction of, any existing major thoroughfares serving the area at the time of the adoption of the boundaries of the area of benefit. Payment of fees shall not be required unless any planned bridge facility is a new bridge serving the area or an addition to an existing bridge facility serving the area at the time of the adoption of the boundaries of the area of benefit. Action to establish an area of benefit may be initiated by the City Council upon its own motion or upon the recommendation of the Director of Public Works. The City Council shall set a public hearing for each proposed area benefited. Notice of the time and place of said hearing including preliminary information related to the boundaries of the area of benefit, estimated costs and the method of fee apportionment shall be given in the following manner: (1) Notice shall be given at least ten (10) calendar days before the hearing by the following: (a) Notice published at least once in a newspaper of general circulation within the proposed area of benefit. (b) Notices posted throughout the proposed area of benefit wi-th at least three (3) notices posted at arterial highway intersections within the proposed area of benefit. (c) Notice's sent by first-class mail addressed to each property owner within the boundary of the proposed area of benfit. (d) Notices sent by first-class mail to all Municipal Advisory Committees and known Homeowners' Associations within the proposed area of benefit. (e) Notice by first-class mail to any person who has filed a written request therefor with the Director of Public Works. Such request shall apply for the calendar year in which it is filed. (1) At the public hearing the City Council will consider the testimony, written protests, and other evidence. At the conclusion of the public hearing the City Council may, unless a majority written protest is filed and not withdrawn 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 he as specified in section g(3), determine to establish an area of benefit. If established, the City Council shall adopt a resolution describing the boundaries of the area of benefit, setting forth the cost, whether actual or estimated, and the method of fee apportionment. A certified copy of such resolution shall be recorded by the City Clerk with the Orange County Recorder's Office. (2) Such apportioned fees shall be applicable to all property within the area of benefit and shall be payable as a condition of issuing a building permit for such property or portions thereof. Where the area of benefit includes lands not subject to the payment of fees pursuant to this section, the City Council shall make provisions of payment of the share of improvement cost apportioned to such lands from other sources. (3) Written protests shall be received by the City Clerk at any time prior to the close of the public hearing. If written protests are filed by the owners of more than one-half of the area of the property to be benefited by the improvement, and sufficient protests are not withdrawn so as to reduce the area represented by the protests to less than one-half of the area to be benefited, then the proposed proceedings shall be abandoned, and the City Council shall not, for one year from the filing of said written protests, commence or carry on any proceedings for the same improvement under the provisions of this section. Any protests may be withdrawn by the owner making the same, in writing, at any time prior to the close of the public meeting. (4) If any majority protest is directed against only a portion of the improvement, then all further proceedings under the provisions of this section to construct that portion of the improvement so protested against shall be barred for a period of one year, but the City Council shall not be barred from commencing new proceedings not including any part of the improvement so protested against. Such proceedings shall be commenced by a new notice and public hearing as set forth in subsection (f) above. (5) Nothing in this section shall prohibit the City Council, within such one-year period, from commencing and carrying on new proceedings for the construction of an improvement or portion of the improvements so protested against if it finds, by the affirmative vote of four-fifths of its members, that the owners of more than one-half of the area of the property to be benefited are in favor of going forward with such improvement or portion thereof. Fees paid pursuant to this section shall be deposited in a planned bridge facility or major thoroughfare fund. A fund shall be established for each planned bridge facility project or each planned major thoroughfare project. If the area of benefit is one in which more than one bridge or major thoroughfare is 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 required to be constructed, a separate fund may be established covering all of the bridge projects or major thoroughfares in the area of benefit. If the area of benfit encompasses one or more bridges and one or more thoroughfares and all lands within the area of benefit are subject to the same proportionate fee for all bridges and thoroughfares, a single fund may be established to account for fees paid. Moneys in such fund shall be expended solely for the construcion or reimbursement for construction of the improvements serving the area to be benefited and from which the fees comprising the fund were collected, or to reimburse the City for the costs of constructing the improvement. i. The City Council may approve the acceptance of consideration in lieu of the payment of fees established herein. j® The City Council may approve the advancement of money from the General Fund or Road Fund to pay the costs of constructing the improvements covered herein and may reimburse the General Fund or Road Fund for such advances from planned bridge facility or major thoroughfare funds established pursuant to this section. k® If the building permit applicant, as a condition of the issuance of the building permit, is required or desires to construct a bridge or major thoroughfare, the City Council may enter into a reimbursement agreement with the applicant. Such agreement may provide for payments to the applicant from the bridge facility or major thoroughfare funding covering that specific project to reimburse the applicant for costs not allocated to the applicant's property in the resolution establishing the area of benefit. If the bridge or major thoroughfare fund covers more than one project, reimbursements shall be made on a pro rata basis reflecting the actual or estimated costs of the projects covered by the fund." SECTION 2: This ordinance shall be in full force and effect thirty (30) days from and after its adoption. PASSED AND ADOPTED at a regular meeting of the Tustin City Council held on the day of , 1985. Frank H. Greinke Mayor ATTEST: Mary Wynn City Clerk 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 DRAFT A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF TUSTIN ESTABLISHING TNE AREA OF BENEFIT AND THE MAJOR THOROUGHFARE AND BRIDGE FEE PROGRAM AND THE FOOTHILL/EASTERN TRANSPORTATION CORRIDORS WHEREAS, buildout of the land use element of the General Plan of the City of Tustin is dependent upon providing a balanced transportation system to serve the planned level of development; and WHEREAS, the City Council finds that implementation of the Foothill and Eastern Transportation Corridors will result in a transportation system which has the capacity to accommodate the additional traffic volume associated with anticipated future development; and WHEREAS, implementaton of the Foothill and Eastern Transportation Corridors will help to relieve congestion on the existing transportation system; and WHEREAS, future state and federal revenue are projected to be inadequate to construct and transportation corridors in a timely manner; and WHEREAS, the City council finds that future development should pay a share of the cost of implementing new transportation corridors to insure that the transportation system will be adequate to serve said development and that this share of the corridor costs should be proportional to the traffic generated by the development; and WHEREAS, Ordinance No. of the City of Tustin provides for the establishment of major thoroughfare and bridge construction fees to be paid by building permit applicants in the City of Tustin; and WHEREAS, notice of the public hearing on the possible adoption of the fee program was given to all property owners as provided in Ordinance No. ; and WHEREAS, the property owners within the area of benefit did not file a majority written protest to the establishment of the Foothill/Eastern Transportation Corridor Fee Program; and WHEREAS, a Negative Declaration was issued as a result of initial studies prepared to assess the evnironmental impacts which might be associated with the adoption of the major thoroughfare and bridge fee program. NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED AS FOLLOWS: SECTION 1: The boundary of the area of benefit shall be as described in the document dated July 1985 entitled "Major Thoroughfare and Bridge Fee Program for the Foothill/Eastern Transportation Corridors" ("Program") attached hereto as Exhibit "A" and incorporated by reference herein. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 1 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 2O 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 SECTION 2: The estimated cost of these major thoroughfares and bridges are as follows: Foothill/Eastern Transportation Corridors The Program is presently designed to collect 48.5% of the cost of construction of the Foothill/Eastern Transportation Corridors. SECTION 3: The fees for development within the area of benefit are based on the trip ends generated by the development as determined from the Trip Generation Tables included in the Program and shall be assessed upon new development based upon the number of dwelling units included in the development (for residential projects) or the gross square footage of the development (for non-residential projects) in those amounts as set forth in the Area of Benefit Fee Table included in the Program. SECTION 4: An automatic adjustment of the fees, based upon the Construction Cost Index, shall be made each fiscal year commencing in fiscal year 1986-87. An adjustment of the fee based upon updated project cost estimates or other changed conditions shall be made in lieu of the Annual Cost Index Adjustment when necessary. SECTION 5: The collection of the fee shall be a condition of issuance of a building permit as described in the Program. The payment of fees may be deferred for all residential rental projects or projects which include State or Federal requirements to provide units affordable to families with incomes less than 80% of the median income for those time periods and subject to those terms and conditions set forth in Section IX of the Program. Fee credits shall be granted for dedications and work performed for the corridors as set forth in Section XI of the Program. SECTION 6: In the event the City executes the "Joint Exercise of Powers Agreement" creating the "Joint Exercise of Powers Agreemnt Creating the Foothill/Eastern Transportation Corridor Agency" ("Agreement"), upon the effective date of said Agreement, the City shall remit all fees collected pursuant to the Program to the Joint Powers Agencies created by said Agreement pursuant to; the terms and conditions of said Agreement. In the event the City executes said Agreement, any person aggrieved by a decision of the City regarding the amount of any corridor fee imposed or fee credit granted may appeal the decision of the City to the Foothill/Eastern Transportation Corridor Agency, where appropriate, which decision shall be final. SECTION 7: of Ordinance No. Program. This Resolution shall be effective upon the effective date , establishing the Major Thoroughfare and Bridge Fee 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 2O 21 22 23 25 26 27 28 PASSED AND ADOPTED by the City Council of the City of Tustin, California, this day of , 1985. Frank H. Greinke Mayor ATTEST: Mary Wynn City Clerk