Comprehensive Development Impact Fee Services

The vendor required to provide comprehensive development impact report for fiscal year ending June 30, 2025.
- Needs assessment
•    Identify assumptions to be incorporated into the nexus study for existing population and existing public facilities and proposed new development projects. 
•    Evaluate the city’s existing public facilities infrastructure and capacities in the context of any existing planning documents and capital improvement plans and as compared to existing demands for services from existing populations. 
•    Identify existing levels of service in accordance with code for the public facilities proposed to be funded by impact fees. 
•    Identify the bases for determining public facility standards for new development and for estimating costs for those public facilities. 
•    Consider relevant city policy documents such as the general plan.
•    Document the existing and proposed new levels of service of public facilities funded by impact fees, including any explanation required by government code
•    identify the estimated costs of the public facilities needed to serve new development.
- Nexus and proportionality analysis
•    Conduct a nexus analysis to establish the connection between the impacts from new developments on the proposed public facilities, and the benefits received by new developments from the proposed public facilities. 
•    Quantify the proportional share of costs attributable to each category of new development project for each category of public facilities.
- Fee structure development
•    Develop a fee schedule for each category of development project based on city standards (e.g., residential, commercial, mixed-use).
•    Calculate fees based on the nexus and proportionality analysis with charges based per-square-foot of new development or based per-unit. 
•    Compare proposed fees to other similar public agencies with similar types of public facilities funded by development impact fees.
- Stakeholder engagement
•    Facilitate workshops, meetings, or surveys to gather input from key stakeholders, including: developers and property owners, community organizations and businesses, and residents. 
•    Attend and participate in public hearings, including preparation and presentation of a PowerPoint summary of the proposed fees.
- Prepare nexus study
•    Develop a nexus study in accordance with the mitigation fee act to document the required bases for the city to impose development impact fees imposed on new development projects. 
•    The overall methodology 
•    Supporting justification 
•    The analysis and calculations that provide each legal nexus between the recommended fee and the impact created by the new development
•    Prepare summaries of proposed updated or new impact fees to inform the public regarding the proposed fees.
•    Provide the comparison of similar fees in other similar public agencies. 
•    Prepare and participate in presenting the plan to interested external parties
- Implementation support
•    Assist with advice or drafting policies or other documents to implement the development impact fee program.
•    Provide guidance on establishing a process for fee collection, accounting, and future updates. 
•    Provide city staff with an interactive tool that will ensure predictable and intuitive fees that are easily accessible and understandable to customers interested in calculating fees on their own for a particular type of project.

- Questions/Inquires Deadline: January 9, 2026