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Ordinance adopting a 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
WHEREAS, in August 2020 a study was prepared for the City by the Matrix Consulting Group, entitled Development Impact Fee Study, 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 ("Nexus Study");
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 for to create these additional 1,069 childcare spaces is $43.5 million; and
WHEREAS, City wishes to update the Fee to better implement the goals contained in the Nexus Study to maintain existing service levels; and
WHEREAS, the City will adopt a separate resolution to set the Fee at rates consistent with the Nexus Study and this Ordinance; and
WHEREAS, the City Council also wishes to create uniformity in the manner in which development impact fees are codified in the South San Francisco Municipal Code and adjusted periodically (consistent with their enabling legislation and nexus studies) by resolution; and
WHEREAS, the existing provisions of the Fee in chapter 20.310 of the Municipal Code vary f...
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