This chapter shall be known as the "Establishment of Development Impact Fees to Finance the Costs of Library Facilities within the Urban Services Boundary."
(SCC 1539 § 1, 2013)
A. 
The Public Facilities Element of the County General Plan requires library facilities and services in new and growing areas to be equivalent to those in established community areas without reducing service in established community areas, and the Sacramento Public Library Authority Facility Master Plan contains established standards for providing library facilities based on population and service area criteria.
B. 
The Public Facilities Element of the County General Plan states a goal that adequate and timely funding of library facilities be shared equitably by existing and new residents. Policy PF-42 encourages sharing of capital costs of library construction and renovation for existing residents through bond financing or other appropriate measures and by new residents and workers through fees on new development.
C. 
New urban development within the unincorporated area of the County will generate the need for the construction of new facilities and/or renovation of existing ones to meet the demands of the new development.
D. 
The purpose of this chapter is to impose development impact fees to fund the cost of certain library facilities, the need for which is directly or indirectly generated by the type and level of development proposed within the Urban Services Boundary, consistent with Article XI, Section 7 of the California Constitution and the Mitigation Fee Act (Government Code Section 66000 et seq.).
(SCC 1539 § 1, 2013)
A. 
"Accessory dwelling unit" means an attached or a detached residential dwelling unit occupying the same parcel as the primary dwelling unit, which provides complete independent living facilities for one or more persons as further defined and subject to the requirements of the Sacramento County Zoning Code and applicable State Law. This includes efficiency units and junior accessory dwelling units.
B. 
"Administrative charge" means the component of the development impact fee for amounts spent, or authorized to be spent, in connection with the collection, calculation, processing, program development and other management of the development impact fees and Development Impact Fee Program.
C. 
"Board" means the Board of Supervisors of the County.
D. 
"Building permit(s)" means the permit(s) issued or required for the construction, improvement, or remodeling of any structure pursuant to and as defined by the County Building Code.
E. 
"Costs" means amounts spent, or authorized to be spent, in connection with the planning, financing, acquisition and development of library facilities consistent with the Library Facilities Impact Fee Study including, without limitation, the costs of site acquisition, site improvements, construction, engineering, design, consulting fees, permit fees, furnishing, materials collection, and administration.
F. 
"County" means the County of Sacramento.
G. 
"Countywide Library Administration Fund" means that special interest-bearing trust fund established pursuant to Section 16.160.035.
H. 
"Countywide Library Facilities Fund" means that special interest-bearing trust fund established pursuant to Section 16.160.030.
I. 
"Development impact fees" means the fees levied by this chapter upon the approval of a building permit within the Urban Services Boundary.
J. 
"Development Impact Fee Program" means the plan entitled "Library Facilities Impact Fee Study," adopted by resolution by the Board on September 10, 2013, for financing of designated library facilities within the unincorporated area of the County, including any amendments thereto.
K. 
"Facilities" means those library facilities specified in the Library Facilities Impact Fee Study.
L. 
"Fee category(ies)" means the categories of fees applicable to the types of residential development including single-family attached dwelling units, two to four unit attached dwellings, five or more unit attached dwellings, mobile homes, and residential accessory dwellings.
M. 
"Residential development" means the original construction or installation of single-family detached dwellings units, two to four unit attached dwellings, five or more unit attached dwellings, mobile homes, and residential accessory dwellings. These may include residential buildings typically called single-family attached homes, duplexes, triplexes, quadplexes, townhomes, condominiums, apartments, manufactured homes, mobile homes, and residential accessory dwellings.
N. 
"Sacramento Public Library Authority" means the joint powers authority established through a joint powers agreement between the County and the cities of Sacramento, Galt, Isleton, Citrus Heights, Elk Grove, and Rancho Cordova for the purpose of delivering public library services for all citizens in each of the member jurisdictions.
O. 
Urban Services Boundary" means that portion of the unincorporated area of the County located within the Urban Services Boundary as delineated in the County's General Plan.
(SCC 1539 § 1, 2013; SCC 1661 § 17, 2020)
A. 
Concurrently with adoption of the ordinance codified in this chapter, the Board has by resolution approved the Library Facilities Impact Fee Study (the "Development Impact Fee Program") and adopted the development impact fee rates.
B. 
All library facilities shall be funded pursuant to the approved Development Impact Fee Program.
(SCC 1539 § 1, 2013)
A separate development impact fee is hereby established and shall apply to all residential development within the Urban Services Boundary for: (1) facilities; and (2) administrative charge.
(SCC 1539 § 1, 2013)
A. 
There is hereby established by the Department of Finance in the County Treasury a special interest-bearing trust fund entitled the Countywide Library Facilities Fund. All development impact fees collected pursuant to this chapter, with the exception of the administrative charge, shall be placed in said Fund and shall be expended by the Sacramento Public Library Authority, or its successor agency, or the County, solely to pay the costs identified in the Development Impact Fee Program.
B. 
The Countywide Library Facilities Fund shall be administered by the Sacramento Public Library Authority, or its successor agency, or the County.
(SCC 1539 § 1, 2013)
A. 
There is hereby established by the Department of Finance in the County Treasury a special interest-bearing trust fund entitled the Countywide Library Administration Fund. All development impact fees collected pursuant to this chapter for administrative charge shall be placed in said Fund and shall be expended by the County solely to pay the costs associated with the administration of the Development Impact Fee Program.
B. 
The Countywide Library Administration Fund shall be administered by the County.
(SCC 1539 § 1, 2013)
No residential building permit shall be approved or issued for property within the Urban Services Boundary unless the development impact fees for that property are paid as required by this chapter.
(SCC 1539 § 1, 2013)
A. 
The development impact fees imposed pursuant to this chapter shall be paid by the building permit applicants for residential development within the Urban Services Boundary to the County, at the rates designated for single-family detached dwelling units, two-to four-unit attached dwellings, five-or more unit attached dwellings, mobile homes or residential accessory dwellings.
B. 
For the purpose of applying the development impact fees pursuant to subsection A of this section for residential building permits that do not match the fee categories summarized in this chapter, the Sacramento Public Library Authority staff in conjunction with the County Engineer will review the permit application and designate the appropriate fee category based on the impact to the library facilities from the development.
(SCC 1539 § 1, 2013)
The following shall be exempt from the development impact fees:
A. 
Any replacement or reconstruction (no change in use) of any residential unit. However, if the residential unit(s) replaced or reconstructed exceeds the documented total number of units of the original residential structure, the excess units are subject to the development impact fees. If a residential structure has been vacant for more than five years, the exemption will not apply.
B. 
Additions of single-family residential structures provided no change in use occurs and a second full kitchen is not added.
C. 
Additions to multifamily residential structures that are not part of a mixed use type project provided no change in use occurs and no additional units result.
D. 
Non-habitable residential structures such as decks, pools, pool cabanas, sheds, garages, and similar structures.
E. 
The issuance of Building Permits for accessory dwelling units 850 square feet or less and 1,000 square feet or less for multi-bedroom units. For all other accessory dwelling units, the SCTDF and TIF shall be charged in an amount which is the lesser of:
(a) 
A proportionate amount in relation to the square footage of the primary dwelling unit based upon the Library Facilities amount that the primary dwelling unit would pay; or
(b) 
The rate for an RD-20 unit with one occupant.
(SCC 1539 § 1, 2013; SCC 1661 § 18, 2020)
A. 
Upon application by the property owner, the Sacramento Public Library Authority and the County may authorize the dedication of land for a library site, or portions thereof, as designated in the Development Impact Fee Program. In the event the dedication of land is authorized, the Sacramento Public Library Authority and the County may enter into a credit agreement pursuant to subsections B, C and D of this section, in lieu of all, or a portion of, the development impact fee required by this chapter, or may enter into a reimbursement agreement pursuant to subsections E, F and G of this section with the property owner for the dedication of library land.
B. 
The credit agreement shall set forth the amount to be credited and the time and manner in which credits are applied. The amount of credit shall be based on an appraisal, and shall not exceed the costs of the land as set forth in the approved Development Impact Fee Program in effect at the time the land is dedicated, including, but not limited to, unit prices and quantities. The land dedication authorized by this section must first be accepted by the Sacramento Public Library Authority and the County prior to credit being given and issuance of any building permits.
C. 
Where the amount of the credit is less than the amount of the otherwise applicable development impact fee, the property owner must pay the difference.
D. 
Where the amount of the credit is greater than the amount of the development impact fee, the property owner shall be paid the difference from the Countywide Library Facilities Fund after the dedication is accepted by the Sacramento Public Library Authority and the County and on a first-come-first serve basis. High priority library projects as determined by the Sacramento Public Library Authority shall take funding precedence over reimbursing property owners.
E. 
The reimbursement agreement shall set forth the amount to be reimbursed and the time and manner in which payments are to be made, and shall require reimbursement only from the Countywide Library Facilities Fund.
F. 
The amount of reimbursement shall be based on an appraisal, and shall not exceed the costs of the land as set forth in the approved Development Impact Fee Program in effect at the time the land is dedicated, including, but not limited to, unit prices and quantities. The land dedication must be accepted by the Sacramento Public Library Authority and the County prior to any reimbursements being made. The reimbursement shall be made on a first-come-first-serve basis. High priority library projects as determined by the Sacramento Public Library Authority shall take funding precedence over reimbursing property owners.
G. 
By entering into a reimbursement agreement, a property owner is not relieved of the obligation to pay the development impact fees in the manner and amount specified by this chapter.
(SCC 1539 § 1, 2013)
Beginning March 1, 2015, and thereafter each year no later than March 15th, the County with notice to the Sacramento Public Library Authority shall authorize the adjustment of the development impact fees for each fee category as follows:
A. 
A "mean" index will be computed by averaging the index for 20 U.S. cities with the index for San Francisco by resort to the January issue of the Engineering News Record magazine Building Cost Index of the year in which the calculation is being made.
B. 
An adjustment factor shall be computed by dividing the "mean" index as calculated in subsection A of this section by the "mean" index for the previous January; however, the March 2015 adjustment factor shall be computed by dividing the "mean" index as calculated in subsection A of this section by the "mean" index for September 2013, and, if a new development impact fee has been adopted after January of the previous year, the adjustment factor shall use the "mean" index from the month that the fee was adopted.
C. 
The new development impact fee per fee category shall be calculated by multiplying the adjustment factor, as calculated in subsection B of this section, by the development impact fees per fee category in place prior to the annual adjustment.
D. 
The costs of the facilities used in the Development Impact Fee Program and for calculating credits and reimbursements pursuant to Section 16.160.055 shall be adjusted annually using the same adjustment factor pursuant to subsections A, B and C of this section.
(SCC 1539 § 1, 2013)
This chapter is intended to establish a supplemental method for funding the cost of certain library facilities, the need for which will be generated by the level and type of development proposed within the unincorporated area of the County. The provisions of this chapter shall not be construed to limit the power of the Board to impose any other fees or exactions or to continue to impose existing fees or exactions on development within the affected unincorporated area of the County, but shall be in addition to any other requirements which the Board is authorized to impose, or has previously imposed, as a condition of approving plans, rezones or other entitlements within the affected unincorporated area of the County pursuant to State and local laws. Individual property owners shall remain obligated to fund, construct, and/or dedicate the improvements, public facilities and other exactions required for the development. Any credits or repayments pursuant to Section 16.160.055 shall not include the funding, construction or dedications described in this section.
(SCC 1539 § 1, 2013)