Editor's note(s)—Ord. No. 01-20 , § 1, adopted Feb. 11, 2020, amended Ch. 15.38 in its entirety to read as herein set out. Former Ch. 15.38, §§ 15.38.010—15.38.070, pertained to similar subject matter, and derived from Ord. 5-08; Ord. 4-01; and Ord. 47-88.
The City Council of the City of Orange finds and declares that all recitals set forth in the preamble of the ordinance codified in this chapter are true and such recitals are incorporated in this chapter and set forth as findings of the City Council; and the City Council does further find and declare as follows:
A. 
The State of California, through the enactment of Section 66000 et seq. of the Government Code of the State of California, also known as the Mitigation Fee Act, has determined the nexus that must be established in the enactment of development impact fees.
B. 
The imposition of development impact fees is one of the preferred methods of ensuring that development bears a proportionate share of the cost of public facilities and services necessary to accommodate such development. This must be done in order to promote and protect the public health, safety and welfare.
C. 
This chapter recognizes that new development projects within the City will result in additional growth and that such growth will place additional burdens on fire protection facilities, infrastructure and services, necessitating the acquisition of land and construction of fire protection facilities and expansion of services and infrastructure in order to meet and accommodate new residential development projects.
D. 
New development projects within the City should bear a proportionate financial burden in the construction and improvement of fire protection facilities necessary to serve them.
E. 
The cost of providing fire protection facilities occasioned by new development projects within the City exceeds the revenue generated by fees exacted from the development projects.
F. 
In adopting fees authorized by this chapter, the City shall establish the fees based upon the costs generated through the need for new fire protection facilities and other capital acquisition costs required, incrementally, by new development within the City.
G. 
The fees established under this chapter shall not exceed the reasonable cost of providing fire protection facilities occasioned by new development projects within the City.
H. 
The fees established under this chapter shall bear a rational relationship to the reasonable cost of providing fire protection facilities occasioned by new development projects within the City.
I. 
The fees established by this chapter shall be consistent with the goals and objectives of the City's general plan and are designed to mitigate the impacts caused by new development throughout the City. Development impact fees are necessary in order to help finance the required fire protection facilities and to ensure that new development pays a fair of the cost thereof.
J. 
Imposition of fees to finance fire protection facilities required by new development is necessary in order to avoid adversely impacting existing fire protection facilities.
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A. 
The City Council shall, by resolution, set forth the specific amount of the fire protection facilities fee, which fee shall include an amount to recover the cost of preparation of the study and administrative overhead costs, to be set as a percentage of the fire protection facility program fees which are collected pursuant to this chapter.
B. 
The fire protection facilities fee required by this chapter shall be due upon the following:
1. 
All Nonresidential Development. As a condition precedent to the issuance of a building permit.
2. 
Residential Development. On the date of final inspection or certificate of occupancy for each unit, whichever occurs first. The rate at which the fee shall be charged for residential development shall be based upon the rate that was in place at the time a building permit was issued for each unit.
a. 
"Residential development" means any project undertaken for the purpose of developing real property with one or more dwelling units, including a subdivision, apartment houses, dormitory-style housing, fraternity and sorority houses, room and board facilities, mobile homes, manufactured housing or structures, and structures moved into the City.
b. 
"Dormitory-style housing" means student housing facilities for individual or group accommodation owned or operated, or authorized to be acquired, constructed, furnished, equipped and operated, by a college or university for use by students, faculty members, or other employees of any college or university.
3. 
Hospitals and Other Health Facilities Issued Building Permits by the State. As a condition precedent to approval of a grading plan, which requirement shall appear in any CUP issued for such a facility.
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The payment of a fee for the fire protection facilities program, including an administrative fee to offset the operational oversight and administration of the impact fee program, shall be required when the application indicates the following:
A. 
A construction or improvement project will result in an increase of floor area.
B. 
The estimated cost of the proposed construction or improvement, as determined by the Building Official will exceed $15,000.00. For purpose of this section, the valuation per square foot shall not exceed that listed in the latest edition of the International Code Council (ICC) Building Valuation Data information sheet, or equivalent.
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The following construction and improvements are exempt from the requirements of this chapter:
A. 
Building additions or improvements to single-family residential units and accessory structures to be constructed on parcels in any single-family R-1 district.
B. 
Tenant and owner improvements and maintenance work which will not increase the floor area of existing structures.
C. 
Replacement of structures in size and function as the result of fire, earthquake, flood or other acts of God or of the public enemy.
D. 
Open parking garages that are not part of any other structure or used or intended for supporting or sheltering any use of occupancy other than parking of vehicles.
E. 
Existing buildings erected prior to the adoption of this chapter, or one for which a valid building permit has been issued, unless the development was previously conditioned to participate in or pay a fee related to providing or improving fire protection services.
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All proceeds from fees collected under this chapter shall be paid into a special fund of the City of Orange entitled "Fire Protection Facilities Program," which fund is hereby created. The fund shall be used only for the purposes stated in Section 15.38.010.
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The fire protection facilities program fee shall be adjusted on the first day of July of each year to reflect the percentage of increase or decrease in the Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U) (Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim; all items, not seasonally adjusted; 1982-1984=100 reference base) for the timeframe since the most recent increase. The adjusted fee, if any, shall be rounded to the nearest dollar for "per unit" fees and to the nearest one tenth of a cent for "per square foot" fees. The fire protection facilities program fee will be reviewed on an annual basis to determine if development and the corresponding fire protection facility improvements are proceeding as projected.
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The boundaries of any Fire Protection Facilities Program Area and the fees referred to in Sections 15.38.020 and 15.38.060 of this chapter, and other provisions of this chapter affecting the amounts of fees to be paid, may be revised, deleted or otherwise amended by resolution of the City Council.
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