Road Map to Funding Infrastructure

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Road Map to Funding Infrastructure

• Great Valley Center
• October 27,2006

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Trip-Tix or GPS

• General Plan
• Specific Plan
• Utility Master Plans
• Capital Improvement Program
• Exactions/Fees
• Development Agreements
• Ordinances

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General Plan

• Goals and Policies
• Provide nexus
• Relates to utilities, services and amenities
• Example
• Provide ten acres of park land for every
• 5000 residents.
• Or Promote the development of child care
  facilities to fulfill the needs of our residents.

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Specific Plans

• Greenfield or infill application
• Goals and Policies
• Detailed standards/requirements
• Financial Plan/Implementation including special
  assessment district formation/Business
  Improvement District
• Nexus

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Utility/Service Master Plans

• Developed in conjunction or following General
  Plans
• Types of Master Plans
• Provides more detailed analysis of need or sets
  standards
• Nexus

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Capital Improvement Program

• Provide usually a five year map for the timing
  and funding of public improvements, eg street,
  utility, civic buildings, etc.
• Reviewed annually and requires Planning
  Commission action of consistency with General Plan

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Development Agreements

• Must be consistent with General Plan
• Vested rights
• Fess imposed by Development Agreement are exempt
  from Govt Code 60000
• More Latitude but usually requires benefits to
  developer

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Exactions

• Conditions of approval, dedications, impact fees
  and/or improvements imposed on project
• Consistency with General Plan/Specific Plan
• Nexus requirement
• Rough proportionality to impact
• Usually applied to conditional use permits,
  variances, PUDs, maps

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Fees

• Cities/Counties have authority to impose fees for
  a wide range of services including transit,
  housing, art, etc so long as they have based
  development conditions on general legislative
  determinations.
• Relationship between fee and cost of public
  facility and type of development project
• Requirements for development fees are imposed by
  State law ( AB 1600)

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Subdivision Map Act

• Dedications
• Improvements
• Reservations
• Local ordinance to include provisions for Quimby
  Act requirements for parks and other fees
  provisions for storm drainage, sewer, bridges and
  major thoroughfares
• Conditions consistent with law and General Plan

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CEQA

• Environmental mitigation
• Acquisition of habitat
• Used in conjunction with agency police power or
  other discretionary powers

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Building Permits

• May attach conditions and dedications
• May require payment of fees
• Need ordinance

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Reminders

• Review your General Plan so it contains key goals
  and policies related to infrastructure needs
• Make sure Proper Ordinances are in place to do
  what you want to do
• Adopt appropriate master plans and standards to
  lay out the road map

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Resources

• A Planners Guide to Financing Public Improvements
  (OPR)
• Curtins California Land Use and Planning Law
  (2005)
• Institute for Local Self-Government