(a) These impact fee procedures shall remain in effect unless and until repealed, amended or modified by the City Council, in accordance with applicable State law and the codified ordinances and resolutions of the City.
(b) Amendments. This chapter, and any ordinance adopting impact fees for any particular category of capital improvements pursuant to this chapter, may be amended from time to time by the City Council, provided, however, that no such amendment shall be adopted without a written report detailing the reasons and need for the amendment; and further provided however, that no such amendment shall be undertaken to any particular category of capital improvements pursuant to this chapter if the same would have the result of increasing the fee prescribed thereunder if the fee prescribed thereunder had been previously increased twice by an amendment which did not include the review of substantially all of the criteria set forth in division (c) of this section, unless the then-proposed amendment includes such a review.
(c) Annual Review and Report. At least once every year, not later than March 31 of each year, beginning January 1, 2008, the Director of Buildings or his or her designee shall coordinate the preparation and submission of an annual report to the City Council, describing the amount of all impact fee funds collected, appropriated and spent, by public facility and by service area, during the preceding fiscal year.
(1) The annual report may include any or all of the following:
A. Recommendations for amendments, if appropriate, to these procedures or to specific ordinances adopting impact fees for particular capital improvements;
B. Proposed changes to the boundaries of the impact fee district, if applicable;
C. Proposed changes to impact fee schedules as set forth in the ordinances imposing and setting impact fees for particular capital improvements;
D. An annual impact fee adjustment based on a standard cost index;
E. Proposed changes to level of service standards for particular categories of capital improvements;
F. Proposed changes to any impact fee calculation methodology;
G. Proposed changes to the population, housing, land use, persons per household or nonresidential development projections included in the impact fee report and upon which the impact fee amounts have been determined;
H. Other data, analysis or recommendations as the Director of Buildings or his or her designee may deem appropriate, or as may be requested by the City Council.
(Ord. 2006-36. Passed 10-23-06.)