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Resolution adopting a Library Impact Fee for the City of South San Francisco.
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WHEREAS, the City currently maintains three library branches that together serve as a heavily utilized and highly valued community resource; and
WHEREAS, as the City's population has increased in recent years, visits to the library branches more than doubled between 2009 and 2015 to more than a half million annual visits, while attendance at library programing rose almost 40 percent during that time; and
WHEREAS, in response to this continued increased demand by new development, the City has undertaken plans to construct a new joint facility for Library and Parks & Recreation, to renovate the Grand Avenue branch library, and to expand outreach services, digital collections, and programming; and
WHEREAS, the City has not historically imposed a development impact fee to mitigate the costs of new development on library infrastructure, namely in rehabilitating, expanding, or replacing library facilities and collections; and
WHEREAS, in August 2020 a study was prepared for the City by the Matrix Consulting Group to analyze the relationship between new development in the City, the library facilities and collections needed to serve that growth, and the estimated costs of those facilities and collections, and to analyze new development's fair share of library infrastructure costs;
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, based upon the City's projected population increase and current per capita usage of facilities and collections materials, the City will need approximately 9,900 square feet of additional library space and 32,000 additional materials in circulation in order to maintain the current library service standard; and
WHEREAS, the Nexus Study further estimates that the total projected cost associated with future residential and n...
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