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53A \1 ATTACHMENT III Planning Cost Recovery Poky that the staff will then charge against to cover the City's actual costs for the review. This policy would not apply to the following types of projects: . Permits for downtown restaurants . New single family homes on one lot or single family additions . Use permits for businesses in existing structures It would apply to these projects/types of projects: . Kaiser Hospital's phases of development . Sequoia Hospital . Residential subdivisions over one-quarter acre . 490 EI Camino Real (shopping center at Whipple and EI Camino) , , The policy would work as follows. An applicant makes contact with Planning staff. The Planner will review the land area of the proposed project. If the site is one-quarter acre or larger, the applicant will be required to make a pre-application deposit to fund the Plan Review Committee2 review of their concept. This pre-application also provides staff with more information about the developer's concept, and allows staff to estimate the deposit that will be needed to complete the project review. Once the application deposit has been made and the application is deemed complete, the plans will be reviewed to completion. If a consultant is being used for any phase of the work (perhaps for the EIR, if required), there will be a contract between the City and the consultant, and the City will make periodic payments to the consultant from the deposit. The billing rates for staff time will be calculated according to the procedures defined in Exhibit 1 to the Resolution approving this Planning Cost Recovery Policy. When the amount of the deposit has been 65% expended of the total, the Planning Director will review the status (given the lag-time in billings, review at this point ensures that the City requests additional funds before the account balance reaches zero). If it appears that the project will require an additional deposit of funds, staff will request the additional deposit from the applicant. Once the project review is completed and the permits issued, staff will check the account balance and within 90 days of the end of project review will return any unused funds. The sub-committee considered possible exemptions from this policy for certain classes of projects such as affordable housing and/or childcare. They decided to recommend an exception for stand-alone childcare facilities but not for childcare that might occur as a part of a larger project; and they felt that developers of affordable housing would not be dissuaded from building because they were paying the actual costs for project review. The sub-committee felt that there should be very few exemptions from this policy. 2 The City Plan Aeview Committee (PAC) is made up of staff from all the dèpartments that comment on development applications. They meet every Tuesday morning and discuss projects. The project planner provides a written summary of the PAC discussions to the applicant follOWing the meeting. All 1-2