Resolution No.
STOCKTON CITY COUNCIL
RESOLUTION APPROVING THE SAN JOAQUIN COUNTY MULTI-SPECIES HABITAT CONSERVATION AND OPEN SPACE PLAN 2024 DEVELOPMENT FEE SCHEDULE On February 20, 2001, the City Council of the City of Stockton adopted Resolution No. 01-0101 establishing the authority for the collection of a Development Fee for the San Joaquin County Multi-Species Habitat Conservation and Open Space Plan (SJMSCP) for all new developments pursuant to the SJMSCP within the City of Stockton; and A "Fee Study" dated July 16, 2001, was prepared which analyzed and identified the costs, funding, and cost-benefit of the SJMSCP; and The purpose of the SJMSCP Mitigation Fee is to finance the goals and objectives of the SJMSCP that include, but are not limited to, preserving land acquisition, preserving enhancement, land management, and the administration that compensate for such lands lost as a result of future development in the City of Stockton and San Joaquin County; and After considering the Fee Study and the testimony received at the public hearing, the City Council approved said report and further found that the future development in the City of Stockton will need to compensate cumulative impacts to threatened, endangered, rare, and unlisted SJMSCP Covered Species and other wildlife and compensation for some non-wildlife-related impacts to recreation, agriculture, scenic values, and other beneficial Open Space uses; and An "Updated Fee Study" was prepared by San Joaquin Council of Governments, Inc. in 2006, 2011, 2016, 2020, 2021, 2022, and 2023 which analyzed and identified the costs and funding of the SJMSCP; and The SJMSCP Development Fees are divided into three categories: Category A – Acquisition; Category B – Enhancement; and Category C – Land Management/ Administration; and To ensure that the SJMSCP development fees keep pace with inflation, annual adjustments are made to the fees based on the method previously adopted by the Stockton City Council; and The method of annual adjustments was modified in 2011, 2016, 2020, 2021, 2022 and again in 2023 by San Joaquin Council of Governments, Inc.; now, therefore, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF STOCKTON, AS FOLLOWS:
The City Council finds and declares that the purposes and uses of the Development Fee, and the determination of the reasonable relationship between the fees’ uses and the type of development project on which the fees are imposed, are valid and adopted as set forth herein.
The 2024 Development Fee shall be as set forth in the following table:
Proposed 2024 SJMSCP Development Fees
Habitat Type
Category A
Category B
Category C
Total Fee
Rounded Fee
Other Open Space
$5,502.00
$3,019.00
$396.66
$8,917.66
$8,918.00
Natural/Ag
$11,003.00
$6,038.00
$792.15
$17,833.15
$17,833.00
Vernal Pool Grasslands
$52,545.00
$14,906.00
$1,956.753
$69,407.53
$69,408.00
Vernal Pool Wetted
$52,748.00
$123,058.00
$1,918.14
$177,724.14
$177,724.00
3. The Fee provided in this resolution shall be effective sixty (60) days after the adoption of this resolution pursuant to California Government Code section 66019(b).
The City Manager is authorized to take whatever actions are necessary and appropriate to carry out the purpose and intent of this Resolution.
PASSED, APPROVED, and ADOPTED December 12, 2023 .
KEVIN J. LINCOLN II
Mayor of the City of Stockton
ATTEST:
ELIZA R. GARZA, CMC
City Clerk of the City of Stockton