SEASP Sensitive Coastal Resource Impact Fee
City Council Public Hearing – November 1, 2022
Background
2 September 19, 2017
City Council certifies EIR 02-16
and establishes the Southeast
Area Specific Plan (SEASP) (SP-2)
October 8, 2020
California Coastal Commission
held a hearing for the Local
Coastal Program Amendment
(LCPA) and recommended
certification of the LCPA with 16
modifications
July 13, 2021
City Council adopts California
Coastal Commission required
modifications
September 8, 2021 California Coastal Commission
certifies SEASP
Vicinity Map
3 SEASP
4 • The SEASP represents tradeoffs
and compromises that are
inherent in a planning process
with lengthy and complex efforts
to fully engage residents,
businesses, and property owners.
• The SEASP planned for the
establishment of an impact fee on
new development for certain
parcels with the purpose of
funding the monitoring and
maintenance of sensitive coastal
resources, along with improved
public access.
Areas of Impact
5 • A study was prepared to
estimate the cost to monitor
and maintain sensitive
coastal resources in the area
subject to the SEASP .
• The fee would be applied to
all residential and
nonresidential square
footage in the Mixed-Use
Commercial Core and Mixed-
Use Marina land use districts
of the SEASP (Areas of
Change).
Sensitive Coastal Resource Impact Fee
6 • This impact fee would be:
o $0.25 fee per gross square foot for residential development o $0.25 per gross square foot for nonresidential development • The fee shall cover a baseline study, monitoring, and maintenance of four acres of buffer and four acres of adjacent wetlands in the SEASP area. • The City commits to establish a Wetlands Conservation and Monitoring Fund, which will receive revenue from the proposed impact fee on new development. • Every five years, the City must review the relationship of the fee to the impact it is supposed to mitigate and to evaluate the validity of the calculations on which the fee is based.
• The impact fee includes an administrative fee of three percent. Adjustments to the fee will be done by resolution of the City Council.
Noticing
7 • Public Noticing completed in accordance with Government Code § 66018:
o Notices were published in the Long Beach Press-Telegram for 10 days from October 7 through October 16, 2022.
o All previously noticed individuals and commenters were noticed of this hearing.
o Notice posters were placed in three public places in the SEASP Area.
Open the public hearing to receive supporting documentation into the record, conclude the public hearing;
Declare an Ordinance amending the Long Beach Municipal Code to establish Chapter 18.19, establishing the Sensitive Coastal Resource Impact Fee to $0.25 fee per gross square foot for residential development and $0.25 per gross square foot for nonresidential development for certain parcels in the Mixed-Use Commercial Core and Mixed-Use Marina designations of the Southeast Area Specific Plan (SEASP) area, read the first time and laid over to the next regular meeting of the City Council for final reading; and
Adopt a Resolution in compliance with Mitigation Fee Act, California Government Code Sections 66000 through 66025 establishing the Sensitive Coastal Resource Impact Fee to $0.25 fee per gross square foot for residential development and $0.25 per gross square foot for nonresidential development for certain parcels in the Mixed-Use Commercial Core and Mixed-Use Marina designations of the SEASP area. The fee would be applied to any development that results in a net increase in development in the area subject to the SEASP . (District 3) Recommendation
8 Thank you
Christopher Koontz, AICP
Acting Director
Development Services Department
[email protected]