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Resolution amending the Childcare Impact Fee for the City of South San Francisco.
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WHEREAS, the City Council previously adopted and has kept in effect a Childcare Impact Fee ("Fee") under the authority of Sections 66000 et seq. of the California Government Code ("Mitigation Fee Act") that applies to residential and non-residential development projects in the City; and
WHEREAS, the Fee was enacted at chapter 20.310 of the South San Francisco Municipal Code and provides funding to establish new childcare spaces in the City for use by its residents and employees; and
WHEREAS, in August 2020 a study was prepared for the City by the Matrix Consulting Group to analyze the current relationship between new development in the City, the childcare services needed to serve that growth, and the estimated costs of those facilities to provide those childcare services, and to analyze new development's fair share of childcare infrastructure costs; and
WHEREAS, a copy of the August 2020 study, titled Development Impact Fee Study ("Nexus Study"), is attached hereto as Exhibit A; and
WHEREAS, the Nexus Study estimates that the City will need to create 2,138 additional childcare spaces by 2040 to maintain current childcare services standards in the City and estimates that 1,069 of these needed spaces are expected to be met by traditional childcare facilities funded by the Fee; and
WHEREAS, the Nexus Study further estimates that the total projected cost to create these additional 1,069 childcare spaces is $43.5 million; and
WHEREAS, City wishes to update and amend the existing Childcare Impact Fee to better implement the goals contained in the Nexus Study of maintaining current childcare service levels for City residents and employees; and
WHEREAS, in accordance with Section 66016 of the Mitigation Fee Act, at least ten (10) days prior to the public hearing at which this Resolution was introduced, the Nexus Study was made available to the public for review; and...
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