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Resolution approving the setting of rates for the Utility Pavement Cut Fee and the Heavy Construction Vehicle Fee and adding both fees to the City's Master Fee Schedule.
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WHEREAS, the City of South San Francisco Municipal Code ("Municipal Code") imposes upon all persons who excavate segments of the City's pavement the obligation to pay a Utility Pavement Cut Fee (Municipal Code ? 13.06.020(a) referred to herein as "Utility Cut Fee"); and
WHEREAS, Municipal Code section 13.06.020(b) authorizes the City Council to establish the amount of the Utility Cut Fee by resolution; and
WHEREAS, Municipal Code ? 13.06.040 provides for certain exceptions to the payment requirement of the Utility Cut Fee, including an exception for all excavations performed by or for the City; and
WHEREAS, the City contracted with NCE Consulting Engineers ("NCE") to study the impact of utility cuts on the City's street network and to develop proposed fees related to these impacts; and
WHEREAS, NCE completed a study, in March 2025, comparing pavement performance for the street sections with and without cuts, quantify damage caused by utility cuts to the pavement within the City and to develop a fee schedule for the City to recover any costs associated with such damage ("Utility Cut Fee Study"), which is attached to the staff report accompanying this resolution and incorporated herein by reference; and
WHEREAS, the Utility Cut Fee Study concluded that pavements with cuts of any size deteriorate far more rapidly than pavements without cuts across all pavement age groups, and therefore, utility cuts reduce the remaining service life of all pavement; and
WHEREAS, the City Council desires that the entities responsible for excavating into the City right of-way bear the burden of the resulting cost of this degradation and shortened life of the surface rather than the taxpayers of the City; and
WHEREAS, the Utility Cut Fee Study establishes that there is a reasonable correlation betwe...
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