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B A K E R S F I E L D
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Staff: Rhonda Smi ey
For: Alan Tandy, City Manager
AGENDA SUMMARY REPORT
Zack Scrivner, Chair
Harold Hanson
Ken Weir
SPECIAL MEETING OF THE
PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT COMMITTEE
Wednesday, August 8, 2007 - 1:00 p.m.
City Manager's Conference Room -Suite 201
1501 Truxtun Avenue, Bakersfield CA
The meeting was called to order at
1.
2.
ROLL CALL
Committee members present: Councilmember Zack Scrivner; Chair
Councilmembers Harold Hanson and Ken Weir
Staff present: Alan Tandy, City Manager; John Stinson, Assistant City
Manager; Rick Kirkwood. Stinson; Management Assistant Rick Kirkwood; Stan
Grady, Development Services Director; Michael Richards, Associate Attorney;
City Attorney Virginia Gennaro; Jim Movious, Planning Director
Others present: Alex Carrassi, Ryan & Johns Sotherby's Realty; Lois Henry,
Bakersfield Californian; James Geluso, Bakersfield Californian; Dave
Dmt~howski, Premier Planning Group; Roger McIntosh, McIntosh & Associates;
Suzanne Grant, KUZZ; Tamara Christian, Eyewitness News; Cal Rossi,
McMillin; Dave Packer, Dave Packer Custom Builders; Susan Zimmerman,
Griffin Industries; Larry Moxley, Dave Packer Custom Builder; Don Cohen,
McMillin; Steve Borneso, Borneso Family; Bob Decker, McMillin; Steve Teglia,
Bakersfield Chamber of Commerce; James Nickel, NFLLC; Donna Carpenter,
Sikand Engineering; Linda Vernon, Bakersfield Association of Realtors
ADOPT AUGUST 2, 2007 AGENDA SUMMARY REPORT
Adopted as submitted.
3. PUBLIC STATEMENTS
None.
Planning and Development Committee
August 8, 2007
Page 2
4. DEFERRED BUSINESS
A. Discussion regarding Transportation Impact Fees -Tandy
City Manager Alan Tandy indicated staff had a positive meeting with the
development representatives regarding the fees, and was able to clear up
many of their questions regarding fees.
Staff had four short term work tasks to address prior to the meeting with
the Planning and Development Committee. The first was in response to
Council member Ken Weir's request to "close the hole in the middle" and
making the fee uniform throughout the metropolitan 2010 Planning Area
and not just the two mile corridor around the proposed freeway projects.
This changed the fee from $2,865 to $2,487 per dwelling unit, and the
commercial rate from $0.42 to $0.35 per square foot.
The second issue addressed was the right-of-way acquisition cost for the
South Beltway, and other areas requiring land acquisition. The recent
decline in the housing market prompted staff to evaluate the need to
recalculate the existing acquisition costs. After review by staff, it was
determined with most acquisitions requiring a minimum 18 month process,
and not set to occur for several years, using today's declining property
values as a benchmark to set acquisition costs would be inadvisable.
Staff recommended maintaining the existing assumptions regarding
acquisition costs.
The third issue was a response to a concept brought up by
Councilmember Scrivner fora 3-Tiered fee concept - a preliminary plan
and concept map was described as follows:
• 1St Tier -The central city infill area for the transportation
impact fee we have now.
• 2nd Tier -The logical termini portion of the TRIP program
that we know we have the finances to build.
• 3rd Tier -Further outlying developments beyond the current
revenue stream that will pay for the roadways and are
outside the existing Transportation Impact Fee (TIF)
program.
The concept would take the $353 million needed for tier 2 and be divided
by the number of lots contributing within the Tier 2 area to establish the
related fee. The $574 million needed for Tier 3 would be divided by the
number of lots contributing within Tier 3 to establish that fee. The actual
computations of fees for this concept would need to be refined and
computed by staff since it is a work in progress.
Planning and Development Committee
August 8, 2007
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The fourth issue presented was in response to concerns regarding the
effect of the interim fee and how it would impact projects currently in
process. Questions were raised by developers regarding possible double
payment of fees should the interim fee be agreed to now and later be
incorporated into the Transportation Impact Fee (TIF) program.
Development Services Director Stan Grady provided language to address
that issue and explained that in the event the proposed additional interim
fee gets merged into the existing Transportation Impact Fee (TIF)
program, then the developers would only be responsible for the TIF.
Several members of the audience opposed the concept proposed by staff
of requiring payment of fees upon commencement of development, rather
than requiring the fee be paid prior to issuance of a building permit. Staff
was agreeable to changing the language so the fee would be collected
prior to issuance of a building permit.
Several audience members were in favor of a single fee instead of a tiered
program. Roger McIntosh of McIntosh & Associates indicated an interest
in getting additional information on the cost of construction numbers and
expressed concerns that under staff recommendations, new development
and home owners would pay for more of the shortfall than their fair share.
Staff indicated that additional grant funds and other potential sources of
funds such as a ~h cent sales tax which could potentially offset the funds
needed for the proposed projects would continue to be pursued.
However, any possible reductions due to these additional funding sources
would likely be offset to some degree by future increased construction
costs.
There was also a discussion regarding possibly bonding against future fee
revenue in order to accelerate the construction of projects.
The Committee agreed with the staff assumptions regarding property
values for right-of-way acquisition remaining the same and implementation
of uniform interim fees. Committee chair Scrivner requested that staff
come back with the numbers for future consideration of a 3-tier option and
a metro-wide policy regarding fees. All members were in favor of
submitting the interim fee proposed to Council for approval.
5. COMMITTEE COMMENTS
None
7. A®JOURNMENT
The meeting adjourned at 2:04:45 PM
cc: Honorable Mayor and City Council members