Fees and deposits shall be required to be paid to the City Engineer before any work shall be performed on a final map, parcel map, land division, or other land improvement by use permit, building permit or other permit. The City Council, by resolution, shall set the amounts of such fees and deposits, and may from time-to-time adjust said amounts. Said fees and deposits shall be used and applied as follows:
A. Final Maps and Parcel Maps. Fees and deposits paid shall be used for the costs, overhead, administration, and other expenses of the Engineering Department.
These expenses include, but are not limited to, all those necessary to examine the tentative final maps and parcel maps, all field checks necessary to enable the City Engineer to ascertain compliance with any and all conditions imposed upon the tentative map, final map or parcel map, or issue any certificate required by the State Subdivision Map Act. The expenses also include the examination, checking, revision and approval of the final map or parcel map and all plans for the required public and private improvements and all inspection and testing of the property and improvements.
Upon completion of all of the required improvements on the final map or parcel map and their final inspection and approval by the City Engineer, the Director of Finance shall prepare and present to the subdivider/applicant, a statement of all costs and overhead, including a reasonable overhead charge, based upon the labor performed by members of the Engineering Department pertaining to the final map or parcel map for which a final map has been approved. The subdivider/applicant shall then pay to the Director of Finance any balance due in excess of the fees deposited as specified above. Any unexpended portion of the fees deposited shall be returned to the subdivider. To assure payment to the City of any balance due, the improvement securities shall not be released until full payment is made and action may be taken thereon to collect any balance due.
B. Projects Other Than Final Maps or Parcel Maps. Fees and deposits paid for projects other than final maps or parcel maps shall be accepted as full payment for all costs, overhead, administration, and other expenses of the Engineering Department, including all those necessary to examine, review, check, report on and approve all plans for streets, alleys, easements, grading, drainage, sewers or other improvements and for their inspection. Said fees and deposits shall be paid to and collected by the City Engineer before the performance of any services for all such proceedings in which the installation of public or private improvements, or the compliance with any conditions, or the signature of any certificate is required of the City Engineer.
C. Fees for Lot Consolidations and Lot Line Adjustments. Prior to the preparation of or approval of a Declaration of Covenant for the consolidation of lots as specified in Chapter 16.04, or the adjustment of lot lines, there shall be paid to and collected by the City Engineer and he shall give his receipt therefor, a sum which shall cover in full the expenses of the City Engineer for the preparation, checking, review and recordation of any Declaration of Covenant, or Lot Line Adjustment Certificate, which sum shall be paid prior to the issuance of any permit or approval of any project on the lots or parcels being consolidated or adjusted.
D. Special Projects. Due to complexity and/or size, other certain projects, as determined by the City Engineer, may be treated the same as final maps and parcel maps in regard to fees as outlined in subsection A of this section. These special projects may include, but not be limited to: lot line adjustments, lot consolidations, use permits, building permits or other permits.
E. Engineering Fees. Each application for a public works permit shall be accompanied by an issuance fee, no part of which shall be returned to the applicant regardless of the action taken on the application. In addition to the application fee, a permit fee shall be paid, which is to cover the City's expenses for inspection and checking the work covered by the permit.
F. Certificate of Compliance. Any person owning real property who requests the preparation and issuance of a Certificate of Compliance, as described in Section 66499.35 of the State Government Code (Subdivision Map Act), shall first pay a fee in an amount which shall cover the full payment of all costs incurred by the City Engineer or the Development Services Department in preparing the Certificate and recordation of the Certificate. Such fee shall be paid whether or not the outcome of the investigation and subsequent Certificate finds that a lot, parcel or property was divided in accordance with and complies with the provisions of Division 2 of Title 7 of the Government Code (Subdivision Map Act), Titles 15 and 16 of this code, and other applicable laws.
(Ord. 2723 § 1, 1990: Ord. 2230 § 1 (part), 1978).