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. "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 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)
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)
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)
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)