Attachment 3
Example Fee Estimate: New 200-Unit Apartment Development Fees Current Proposed FY 25-26
Planning Entitlement Review
Planning Cost-Recovery1(a) $116,000 $71,500
Public Works Cost-Recovery1(b) $19,000 $25,500
Other City Departments/
Divisions Cost-Recovery1(c) $0 $16,050
Admin. Overhead for Cost-Recovery $24,000 $16,950
Public Works Technical Studies2 None $30,000
Technology Fee3 $0 $5,650
Subtotal $159,000 $165,650
Construction Permit Review
Building Plan Check $290,300 $592,000
Building/Fire Permit & Inspection Fee $156,300 $318,500 Public Works Permit & Inspection Fee $85,000 $85,000
Building Permit – Planning Review1(d) Incl. in Cost-Recovery Fee $19,500 Planning Land Use Document Fee $154,000 $175,200
Technology Fee3 $1,850 $49,500
Green Building Fee4 $17.50 $17.50
Strong Motion Instrumentation and Seismic
Hazard/Mapping Program (SMIP) Fee5 $9,500 $9,500
Construction Tax6 $11,250 $11,250
Subtotal $708,217.50 $1,260,467.50
Impact Fees7 Not in Study
The total project construction valuation is assumed to be $73 million.
Notes:
1. The cost-recovery fee structure is proposed to be modified with the Citywide Master Fee Study to:
(a) reduce the duration of the fee account from planning entitlement through construction completion to only planning entitlement review (Note: the proposed planning fee appears lower since it captures only review time during entitlement review);
(b) public works staff are proposed to charge their full hourly rate, previously it was calculated as a portion of planning’s hourly rate;
(c) expand to include cost of other City Departments/Divisions involved in planning entitlement review (e.g.
Building, Environmental Safety , Urban Forestry , City Attorney’ s Office, Utilities, T ransportation, Solid W aste, Traffic, and Housing); and
(d) include new flat fee for Planning staff’s time on building permit review and inspection, based on project size (e.g. unit count, square footage).
2. This includes proposed new fees: Multimodal Transportation Analysis and Utility Impact Study.
3. This is a revised fee to support all technologies associated with development permit review and inspection s for Planning, Building, and Public Works permits in the D evelopment Services Fund ; current fee applies exclusively to building permits for digitizing paper plans.
4. This is collected per Senate Bill 1473 (2008), whereby 90% of the fee is sent to the State and 10% is retained by the City for building inspector-related education/training.
5. This is a pass-through fee for a State Program per Senate Bill 861 (2014).
6. T his is a City tax applied to new construction used for capital improvements per City Code Ch. 29, Article IV (Construction Tax).
7. Example impact fees include nonresidential housing impact fee, parkland dedication in-lieu fee, citywide transportation impact fee, etc.