Division 4.
Requirements, Standards and Procedures

25.601 Payment of fees, dedication of land.

In an attendance area where the council has concurred as provided in division 3 that overcrowding exists, the applicant of a proposed residential development, as a condition of approval, or the obtaining of a building permit, shall pay fees, make an equivalent arrangement in lieu thereof, dedicate land, or do a combination thereof unless excepted as provided in sec. 25.504, subsection (b), as determined by the decision-making body during the hearings and other proceedings on specific residential development applications falling within their respective jurisdictions. Prior to the imposition of the fees, or the dedication of land, or both, it shall be necessary for the decision-making body acting on the application to make the following determination: That the facilities to be constructed, purchased, leased, or rented from such fees or the land to be dedicated, or both, are consistent with the general plan.

25.602 Payment of fees in small residential developments.

Only the payment of fees shall be required in subdivisions containing 50 parcels, or less, or other developments containing 50 units, or less.

25.603 Standards for fees or land.

Any requirement imposed pursuant to this ordinance shall bear reasonable relationship and will be limited to the needs of the community for interim, elementary, or high school facilities, and shall be reasonably related and limited to the need for the schools caused by the development.

25.604 Amount of fees or land.

(a)    When fees are required by this division to be paid in lieu of land dedication or as a combination, or both, such fees shall be, and paid as follows:

(1)    One bedroom $O; two bedrooms $300; three bedrooms $500, four bedrooms $600; five or more bedrooms $800. Any room designed for sleeping which has a closet is a bedroom for the purposes of this article.

(2)    $300 for each dwelling unit, space, or lot in a mobilehome park.

(b)    The total land area required by this article to be dedicated shall be at least equal in monetary value as to the fees which would be otherwise required by sec. 25.604(a). The director of public works shall determine and establish the monetary value of land area for the purposes of this division.

(c)    On July 1, 1979, and each July 1st thereafter, the fees in subsection (a) shall automatically increase or decrease from the amounts then applicable as the percentage of increase or decrease in the construction cost index for the preceding June 1 - May 30 period as shown by the engineering news record’s San Francisco area construction cost index.