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Department of Community Development
Reference: 2018 Fee Resolution Amendment
To: Mayor Kenneth J. Kreutzer and Members of City Council
Through: Philip Rodriguez - City Manager
Marv Falconburg, AICP - Assistant City Manager
Holly Prather, AICP - Community Development Director
Prepared By: Joshua M. Tetzlaff, AICP - Associate City Planner
Date Prepared: February 22, 2018
PURPOSE
To amend the City's 2018 Annual Fee Resolution to add the fees associated with the newly enacted Mobile Vendors Code amendment, to correct a scrivener's error related to the Park Development Impact Fee as well as one involving consultant review fees.
BACKGROUND
Each year, the fees assessed by the various City Departments are adopted by the City Council in the Annual Fee Resolution, usually at the last meeting of the year, to be effective on January 1 of the following year. The fees are intended to recoup for the City the reasonable costs of doing the City's business.
The City Council adopted updated provisions to the City's Mobile Vending regulations by ordinance at first reading on February 6, 2018. The second reading is scheduled for March 6, 2018. The new regulations authorize the assessment of two fees: the Outdoor Vending License Fee and the Outdoor Vending for Private Property Permit Fee.
Staff studied the amount of time it would generally take to review the Mobile Vendors applications and estimated the approximate costs. Based on that analysis, staff has determined a fee of $50.00 for each application is appropriate (see attached Application Processing Cost Worksheet).
The Fee Resolution Amendment also corrects two scrivener errors in the 2018 Fee Resolution: (i) including a few lines of text that were inadvertently omitted that permit the City to use outside independent contractors to undertake building plan reviews when there is a large workload and timelines for review are tight. Language in previous Fee Resolutions included the language that if building pl...
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