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RESOLUTION NO. 2025-15
A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
CORONADO, CALIFORNIA, ADOPTING A REVISED SCHEDULE
FOR A REGIONAL TRANSPORTATION CONGESTION
IMPROVEMENT PROGRAM FEE TO MITIGATE THE IMPACTS
OF DEVELOPMENT OF RESIDENTIAL UNITS ON THE SAN
DIEGO REGIONAL TRANSPORTATION ARTERIAL SYSTEM
FOR FISCAL YEAR 2025-26, INCREASING THE EXISTING
UNIFORM TRANSPORTATION MITIGATION FEE BY SIX
PERCENT, FROM $2,875.06 TO $3,047.57 FOR EACH NEWLY
CONSTRUCTED RESIDENTIAL UNIT
WHEREAS, the City of Coronado is a member agency of the San Diego Association of Governments (SANDAG), a joint powers agency consisting of the City, the County of San Diego, and the seventeen other cities situated in San Diego County; and WHEREAS, SANDAG, acting in concert with the member agencies of SANDAG, in its capacity as the San Diego County Regional Transportation Commission, developed a plan whereby the shortfall in funds needed to enlarge the capacity of the regional system of highways and arterials in San Diego County (the “regional arterial system”) could be made up in part by a transportation uniform mitigation fee on future residential development; and WHEREAS, as a member agency of SANDAG, the City of Coronado participated in the preparation of that certain “RTCIP Impact Fee Nexus Study,” dated September 5, 2006, (the “Nexus Study”), prepared pursuant to California Government Code Section 66000 et seq., the Mitigation Fee Act; and
WHEREAS, the City Council finds that funding of construction of the regional arterial system affecting the City of Coronado with proceeds of the county-wide one-half cent ($.005) transactions and use tax imposed by Ordinance No. 04-01 of the San Diego County Regional Transportation Commission approved by San Diego County voters through Proposition A in 2004 (the “TransNet Ordinance”) will be inadequate even with those fees adopted pursuant to the Nexus Study; and
WHEREAS, in order to receive funds collected by SANDAG through the TransNet Ordinance, the City Council must impose and collect the RTCIP fee for each newly constructed residential housing unit to mitigate the impact each unit has on the regional arterial system; and Attachment 1
WHEREAS, the City Council has added Chapter 82.34 to the Coronado Municipal Code, adopting the San Diego County Transportation Uniform Mitigation Fee Program Ordinance of 2008 (the “Ordinance”), which approves the implementation of a monetary exaction for each newly constructed residential housing unit in the City of Coronado; and WHEREAS, the Ordinance provides that the City Council shall adopt a schedule of fees calculated according to the calculation methodology set forth in Table 11 of the Nexus Study, as may be amended from time to time; and
WHEREAS, SANDAG approved an increase in the Regional Transportation Congestion Improvement Program raising the minimum mitigation fee by six percent from $2,875.06 to $3,047.57.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the City Council of the City of Coronado as follows:
Section 1. Findings. The City Council hereby refers to and incorporates herein by this reference those findings set forth in Section 82.34.020 of the Coronado Municipal Code as if set forth in full herein.
Section 2. Calculation of Fees. The methodology set forth in Table 11 of the Nexus Study has been used to establish the schedule of fees set forth in this resolution.
Section 3. Schedule of Fees. For the purpose of funding those certain improvements to the regional arterial system identified in the Nexus Study, and in accordance with the Ordinance, the following schedule of fees shall be applicable to each and every non-exempt and newly constructed residential unit in the City of Coronado:
Regional Transportation Congestion Improvement Program fee FY 2025-26 - $3,047.57.
Section 4. Effective Date. This resolution shall become effective on July 1, 2025 (the “Effective Date”). Upon the Effective Date, the fees identified and approved by this resolution shall be levied, collected and disposed of in accordance with the California Mitigation Fee Act (California Government Code Section 66000 et seq.) and Section 82.34.040 of the Coronado Municipal Code in effect as of the Effective Date.
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PASSED, ADOPTED, AND APPROVED by the City Council of the City of Coronado, California, at a regular meeting thereof this fifteenth day of April 2025 by the following vote to wit:
AYES:
NAYS:
ABSTAIN:
ABSENT:
APPROVED:
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JOHN D. DUNCAN, Mayor of the
City of Coronado, California
ATTEST:
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KELSEA HOLIAN, City Clerk of the
City of Coronado, California