HomeMy WebLinkAboutCC Resolution 14659 (Annual Traffic Mitigation Fee Report 2019)
RESOLUTION NO. 14659
RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SAN RAFAEL
ACCEPTING THE ANNUAL TRAFFIC MITIGATION FEE REPORT AND
DETERMINING THAT A REASONABLE RELATIONSHIP EXISTS BETWEEN
THE CURRENT NEED FOR TRAFFIC MITIGATION FEES HELD OVER FIVE
YEARS AND THE PURPOSES FOR WHICH THEY WERE ORIGINALLY
COLLECTED
WHEREAS, the City’s Circulation Element of General Plan 2020
identifies improvements necessitated by continued development in the City; and
WHEREAS, the City has adopted a Capital Improvement Program
(“CIP”) that has been developed to prioritize and guide the construction of the
needed improvements and which allocates funds to construct the improvements
as mitigation for continued development; and
WHEREAS, these improvements are scheduled to be constructed
over time as sufficient funds become available; and
WHEREAS, the City imposes a Traffic Mitigation Fee on new
development projects for the purpose of paying for those circulation system
improvements identified in Exhibit 21 of General Plan 2020 and the CIP that are
needed to accommodate the development; and
WHEREAS, General Plan 2020 recognizes and allows other
recommended roadway improvements, including additional improvements that
may become necessary in the long-term and are desirable to enhance San
Rafael’s circulation system, but are not necessary to maintain LOS standards ; and
WHEREAS, General Plan 2020 allows for specific improvements to
be implemented as conditions require, and will be refined during the design
phase, and
WHEREAS, the Plan also recognizes that other feasible design
solutions may become available and be more effective in achieving the same
goals as the improvements listed in Exhibit 21, and
WHEREAS, the City’s Traffic Mitigation Fee fund contains some
funds that have been held for over five years; and
WHEREAS, the City expended $3,685,890 on Traffic Mitigation
funded capital projects in FY 2017-18 and anticipates expending all remaining
$2,193,570 in traffic mitigation funds held over five years in support of the
construction of the Andersen Drive intersection project and other capital projects
in FY 2018-19, and
WHEREAS, City staff has presented to the City Council an annual
report on the Traffic Mitigation Fees as required by Government Code Section
§66006; and
WHEREAS, the circulation system improvements identified in
General Plan 2020 and the CIP are of such size that insufficient funds have been
collected or obtained to construct these improvements within the five -year
expenditure period provided by Government Code Section §66001(d); and
WHEREAS, the Traffic Mitigation Fees that have been held for over
five years are currently planned for specific pending or upcoming projects; and
WHEREAS, there continues to be a distinct nexus between
continued development and the necessity to mitigate development impacts on
traffic circulation;
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the City Council
hereby accepts the annual report on Traffic Mitigation Fees, and finds that a
reasonable relationship exists between the current need for the Traffic Mitigation
Fees held over five years and the purposes for which they were originally
charged.
I, LINDSAY LARA, Clerk of the City of San Rafael, hereby certify
that the foregoing Resolution was duly and regularly introduced and adopted at a
regular meeting of the City Council of said City held on the Monday, the 15th day
of April 2019 by the following vote, to wit:
AYES: Councilmembers: Bushey, Colin, Gamblin, McCullough & Mayor Phillips
NOES: Councilmembers: None
ABSENT: Councilmembers: None
LINDSAY LARA, City Clerk