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6.B. - Page 2 of 29 <br />a use for the fee. In establishing an impact fee requirement, cities must adopt local ordinances in order to <br />collect specific mitigation fees, which are also known as development impact fees ("impact fees"). <br />Redwood City has adopted three impact fees (in chronological order): <br />Transportation Impact Mitigation Fee (2000) <br />Parks Impact Fee (2007) <br />Affordable Housing Impact Fee (2015) <br />School Impact Fees, while collected within Redwood City, are collected and used by the Sequoia Union <br />High School District with a portion of the fee distributed to the Redwood City School District. <br />Each city decides which impact fees to charge, if any. A comparison of impact fees charged by <br />neighboring cities are shown in Table 1. <br />Table 1: Comparison of Impact Fees Across Certain Silicon Valley <br />Jurisdictions <br />Redwood <br />City <br />Menlo Park <br />Mountain <br />View <br />Palo Alto <br />San Carlos <br />San Mateo <br />Sunnyvale <br />Building Construction <br />Street Impact <br />Community Center <br />Impact <br />+ <br />General Government <br />Facilities Impact <br />+ <br />Housing Impact <br />+ <br />Library Imapct <br />+ <br />Parks Impact <br />} <br />Public Safety Facilities <br />Rental Housing Impact <br />+ <br />+ <br />School Impact <br />Sewer Impact <br />Transportation Impact <br />I+ <br />* <br />♦ <br />+ <br />The City's ordinances established that impact fees generally are required to be paid prior to the issuance <br />of a building permit for residential and/or commercial construction. However, the City Council adopted <br />an ordinance on June 11, 2018, granting the City the ability to defer development related fees, such as <br />impact or enterprise fees, to a later specified time. <br />The Mitigation Fee Act requires cities to segregate impact fee revenues from the General Fund, to account <br />for them in special revenue funds and to provide a public report on impact fee revenues collected and <br />expended within 180 days after the last day of each fiscal year. This report fulfills that State requirement. <br />More information about specific capital projects, including project purpose, timeline and funding sources <br />(as many projects are funded by sources other than impact fees), is provided with the Five -Year Capital <br />Page 2 of 6 <br />AOL <br />City of Redwood City 1017 Middlefield Road, Redwood City, CA. 94063 Tel: 650-780-7000 www.redwoodcity.org <br />W <br />