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Page 2 of 12 <br />City of Redwood City 1017 Middlefield Road, Redwood City, CA. 94063 Tel: 650-780-7000 www.redwoodcity.org <br />addition of parkland to maintain the City’s established ratio of parkland per capita and improvement of <br />parks in order to compensate for increased demand. This is brought about by new development and the <br />associated increase in population. <br /> <br />A required nexus study was conducted for technical analysis to determine the maximum, justifiable parks <br />impact fees under the Mitigation Fee Act (AB 1600; Government Code §66000 et seq “Fees for <br />Development Projects”) as well as the appropriate parks dedication requirements and associated <br />parkland in-lieu fees under the Quimby Act (Government Code §66477). Fees are adopted under both <br />statutes to ensure that all new development appropriately contributes to both park land acquisition and <br />park improvements. Cities may choose to adopt parks fees below the maximum level based on economic <br />or policy considerations. <br />At the time of adoption of the 2007 ordinances, the City Council established the Park Impact Fee at 50% <br />of the maximum calculated rate due to conditions in the economy at that time, to not discourage <br />development, and to only limit the fees to residential developments and not commercial. The City Council <br />also established the Quimby Act fees at 50% of the maximum allowable rate. The ordinances established <br />a formula to calculate the yearly adjustment to the fees, however, it only considered the cost of <br />construction and did not include increases to land value. To date, we have received just under $26M for <br />parks impact fees, and just under $3M for Quimby Act fees. <br />In 2018, the Parks, Recreation & Community Services (PRCS) Department initiated the process to consider <br />updating the Redwood City Quimby Act Implementation Ordinance and the Parks Impact Fee Ordinance. <br />The required steps to do this included updating the 2008 Park Needs Assessment to determine community <br />needs for recreational amenities and services and completion of a new Nexus Study. This involved: <br />Conducting a number of stakeholder interviews – including non-profit organizations; youth sports <br />entities; neighborhood associations; school district administrators; City staff and <br />commissioners; LatinX community members; and local businesses contacted through the <br />Chamber of Commerce (completed in spring of 2018) <br />Conducting the general community online survey and hard copies distributed through the North <br />Fair Oaks community in Spanish. We received 681 online responses and 30 hard copy <br />responses. (Completed in August 2018) <br />Analyzing the “10-minute walkability index” for residents to access parks and recreational <br />amenities from their home (completed in October 2018) <br />Finalizing the new Park Needs Assessment (March 2019). <br />Conducting two benchmark comparison studies of all impact fees from other cities. <br />Preparing a 2020 Nexus Study using all data points (EPS, the City’s consultant, provided the <br />report), providing maximum fee amount calculations for residential and commercial uses, <br />updating Nexus Study to recalculate fees based on new 2020 census data released by the federal <br />government at a much later date than expected due to COVID-19 and for compliance with recent <br />state legislation - AB 602. <br /> <br />7.A. - Page 2 of 66 <br />114