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Should Development Impact Fees be Standardized?
An RCS client recently relayed a conversation he had with an analyst from the Housing Policy Division of the State’s Department of Housing and Community Development. It seems there was a question regarding the City’s Housing Element and the HCD analyst expressed a general comment that the City’s Development Impact Fees (DIFs) would have a [...]
Is your infrastructure keeping up with Development?
O.K. so development demand is down, a lot! So what do you do? Plan! Over the past ten years a fairly common lament of many of our Development Impact Fee clients has been that they just don’t have the time to plan for all development that was occurring. Most felt fairly overwhelmed by the rate [...]
Development Impact Fees for a Built-Out City
Here is my daily mantra: Development Impact Fees (henceforth DIFs) are not intended to be punitive. They are merely intended to accommodate additional development by insuring that the City has the necessary infrastructure to meet the additional service demands of that new development. For cities with large, vacant parcels requiring hundreds of millions of dollars [...]
Calculation of Development Impact Fees Under AB1600
In California, State legislation sets certain legal and procedural parameters for the charging of development impact fees (henceforth referred to as DIFs). This legislation was passed as AB1600 by the California Legislature and is now codified as California Government Code Sections 66000 through 66009. This State law went into effect on January 1, 1989. Prior [...]
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