City Council
MEETING DATE: 9/26/2018
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Transportation Uniform Mitigation Fee (TUMF) Amendment 2018
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FROM:
Pat Milos, Community Development Director
RECOMMENDATION:
Recommendation
Staff recommends the City Council hold a public hearing regarding TUMF fees; and introduce and provide first reading, by title only, to an ordinance amending Chapter 3.40 of the Municipal Code.
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BACKGROUND:
On June 25th, 2018 the Coachella Valley Association of Governments (CVAG) Executive Committee approved the 2018 Transportation Mitigation Fee Model Ordinance amending the model ordinance to reflect the changes to the TUMF program identified in the TUMF Nexus Study and effectively increasing the overall related trip rate from $192/trip to $245/trip. The Executive Committee also approved the associated 2018 TUMF Handbook.
Individual Jurisdictions have been asked to prepare Ordinances to adopt the model TUMF Ordinance approved in June 2018, at the local level. It is anticipated that the individual jurisdictions will be able to adopt a resolution implementing the Ordinance by the end of October 2018. CVAG anticipates that the Ordinance will go into effect starting November 1, 2018.
As of September 18, 2018, the Cities of Desert Hot Springs, Palm Springs, and La Quinta have adopted the first reading of the Ordinance. The Cities of Indio and Rancho Mirage will consider the first readings on September 19 with the Cities of Coachella, Indian Wells and Palm Desert considering their first readings the week of September 24, 2018.
Transportation Uniform Mitigation Fee (TUMF) Origins:
In 1987, the California Legislature passed a bill titled Assembly Bill 1600, also known as the "Mitigation Fee Act." The bill outlined the legal requirements in which a development impact fee is charged by local governmental agency to an applicant related to the approval of a development project. The fee was intended to pay for all or a portion of the costs of public facilities a...
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