Park and Recreation Facility Fee

“The Park and Recreation Fee component developed through this Nexus Study would fund the parks and recreation facility improvements and land acquisition necessary to serve new residential development in the City based on the LOS described in this chapter and information provided in the City's 2021 PRMP. New development in the City will increase the service population and, therefore, the need for new parks and recreation facilities and parkland.”

“The fee will be used to construct new development's fair share portion of park and recreation facilities, as well as acquire parkland necessitated by new development; to plan, design, and develop parks and recreation facilities; and to fund the studies and administration to support the program.”

“Parks and recreation service standards are established on a per resident basis. Since the trails system does not serve as employment or activity center connections, the parks and recreation facilities costs are allocated only to residential land uses. The Park and Recreation Fee applies to all new residential development in the DIF Boundary.”

1992 (program first comprehensively adopted); current fee levels approved 2022-06-28, effective 2022-09-01

“On June 28, 2022, the City Council approved the first comprehensive fee update to the City's Development Impact Fee Program since the DIF began in 1992. The approved 2022 DIF program included updated and re-scoped transportation and parks projects and cost information from 2019. The new DIF went into effect on September 1, 2022, with a phased rollout.”

City of Vacaville, the agency that levies it

“The City oversees the implementation and administration of the fee program consistent with the requirements of the Mitigation Fee Act.”

“The City's Municipal Code, Chapter 11.01 addresses development impact fees and describes many of the key policies and procedures for fee administration and implementation, including impact fee funds, impact fee adjustments, and impact fee credits and reimbursements, among others.”

“The new DIF went into effect on September 1, 2022, with a phased rollout. Specifically, residential developers had the option of paying the old fees or the new fees until June 30, 2023, when the new fees went fully into effect. Nonresidential fees were phased in over a three-year period beginning on July 1, 2023, with the new fees going fully into effect on July 1, 2025.”