Urban Design Impact Fee (AB 1600)

“The purpose of this article is to establish a traffic facility construction and fee requirement, an urban design facilities construction and fee requirement, a public facilities construction and fee requirement, a park and recreational facilities construction and fee requirement, and a Northeast Area facility construction and fee requirement that impose upon future development projects an equitable share of the cost of mitigating future public facilities demands created by such projects. (Ord. No. 2013-11, § 2.)”

“It is the intent of the City to require every person who develops land to mitigate the impacts of that development on public facilities. The City will therefore require developers to construct public facilities in accordance with specific capital programs or pay fees that will be used to construct such facilities pursuant to those specific capital programs.”

“25.1504 Establishment of City-wide development impact fees. Except as otherwise provided in this article, a developer of a property shall pay the following development impact fees ... b. Urban Design Impact Fee.”

2013

“Except as otherwise provided in this article, a developer of a property shall pay the following development impact fees pursuant to the procedures set forth in this article and in an amount established by resolution of the City Council: a. Traffic Impact Fee. b. Urban Design Impact Fee. c. Public Facilities Impact Fee. d. Park and Recreational Facilities Impact Fee. (Ord. No. 2013-11, § 2.)”

Ordinance No. 2013-11 § 2 (Fairfield Municipal Code ch. 25, Article XI), as amended by Ord. No. 2022-12

“Except as otherwise provided in this article, a developer of a property shall pay the following development impact fees pursuant to the procedures set forth in this article and in an amount established by resolution of the City Council: a. Traffic Impact Fee. b. Urban Design Impact Fee. c. Public Facilities Impact Fee. d. Park and Recreational Facilities Impact Fee. (Ord. No. 2013-11, § 2.)”

at building permit issuance, by Fairfield Municipal Code s. 25.1506

“Fairfield Municipal Code s. 25.1506, "Payment of fees": "Pursuant to California Government Code Section 66007(b), the City has established reserve accounts and appropriated funds to those accounts ... Therefore, fees required by this article shall be paid at the time of issuance of a building permit for a development."”

City of Fairfield, the agency that levies it. City of Fairfield, Community Development – Building Safety Division

“CITY OF FAIRFIELD / COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT - BUILDING SAFETY DIVISION / DEVELOPMENT FEES ... NOTE: The fee schedule mentioned above only includes the fees that are collected with the building permit.”

“A developer shall be entitled to a credit to the amount of fees required by this article to the extent that the developer constructs, pursuant to City standards and requirements, public facilities that were included in the project lists used to determine the fees established pursuant to this article. 1. Credits shall be earned when the Developer has entered into an improvement agreement with the City to construct such public facility. The City is not obligated to enter into such improvement agreement with the Developer.”