(A) Except as otherwise provided, persons submitting applications seeking approval for new development projects must pay the city impact fees, in an amount set by City Council resolution, as a condition for the city to approve such development projects.
(B) No tentative or final subdivision map, parcel map, grading permit, building permit, final inspection, or certificate of occupancy, or other development permit, may be approved unless the provisions of this section are fulfilled.
(C) Impact fees will be imposed by including the following language in any document of development approval: “All fees imposed pursuant to Chapter 160 of the Santa Paula Municipal Code must be paid to the city before this project is approved.”
(D) The Fire Chief will collect impact fees before the city issues a building permit, except that the connection fees are collected at the time an applicant seeks to connect to the city’s utility system.
(E) Unless otherwise revised, the impact fees established by this chapter will be automatically adjusted on an annual basis at the beginning of each fiscal year based on the average percentage change over the previous calendar year set forth in the Construction Price Index for the Los Angeles metropolitan area. The first impact fee adjustment cannot be made before a minimum of ten months after the effective date of the ordinance adding this chapter to the code.
(F) On or before May 1 of each year the Fire Chief must provide to the City Manager, or designee, a revised schedule for impact fees previously approved by the City Council and subject to the annual automatic adjustment authorized by this section.
(G) On or before June 1 of each year the City Manager, or designee, must publish the revised fee schedule by any reasonable means including, without limitation, posting such schedule on the city’s website.
(H) Beginning on January 2, 2015 and again every three years afterwards, the City Manager, or designee, must cause a study to be completed for reviewing all impact fees imposed by the city and proposing new or increased impact fees. The cost study must be presented to the city council for consideration on or before the city council’s regular second meeting in May.
(Ord. 1076, passed 11-3-03; Am. Ord. 1196, passed 10- 20-08; Am. Ord. 1237, passed 8-15-11)