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Resolution adopting a Citywide Transportation Impact Fee for the City of South San Francisco.
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WHEREAS, new development projects attract new residents, visitors, and employees to the City, and generate increased transportation needs; and
WHEREAS, Implementing Policy 4.2-I-7 of the City's General Plan provides that the City should "[c]ontinue to require that new development pays a fair share of the costs of street and other traffic and transportation improvements, based on traffic generated and impacts on service levels"; and
WHEREAS, Implementing Policy 4.2-I-7 of the City's General Plan provides that the City should "[e]xplore the feasibility of establishing impact fee, especially for improvements required
in the Lindenville area"; and
WHEREAS, Implementing Policy 4.2-I-8 of the City's General Plan provides that the City should "[d]evelop and implement a standard method to evaluate the traffic impacts of individual development"; and
WHEREAS, Implementing Policy 4.2-I-7 of the City's General Plan provides that the City should "Where appropriate, consider upfronting portions of improvement costs where the City's economic development interests may be served"; and
WHEREAS, in 2007, the City adopted Resolution No. 84-2007 imposing an East of 101 Traffic Impact Fee ("East of 101 Fee") to pay for the cost of transportation infrastructure needed to support new development in the East of 101 area of the City under the authority of Sections 66000 et seq. of the California Government Code ("Mitigation Fee Act"); and
WHEREAS, in 2017, the City adopted Ordinance No. 1539 imposing a Bicycle and Pedestrian Impact Fee ("Bike and Pedestrian Fee") to pay for the cost of maintaining bicycle and pedestrian infrastructure levels and providing adequate bicycle and pedestrian improvements needed to support new development citywide under the Mitigation Fee Act; and
WHEREAS, these existing fees have helped address specific needs in the City, their reach is limite...
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