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To:	Board of Supervisors
From:	Brian M. Balbas, Public Works Director/Chief Engineer
Date:	June 11, 2019

Contra

Costa

County

Subject:

Introduce Ordinance No 2019-17 to exempt payment of certain transportation impact fees for accessory dwelling units and FIX June 18, 2019 for adoption

APPROVE	OTHER
RECOMMENDATION OF CNTY ADMINISTRATOR	RECOMMENDATION OF BOARD COMMITTEE

Action of Board On: 06/11/2019

APPROVED AS RECOMMENDED

OTHER

Clerks Notes:

VOTE OF SUPERVISORS

AYE:

John Gioia, District I Supervisor
Candace Andersen, District II Supervisor
Diane Burgis, District III Supervisor
Karen Mitchoff, District IV Supervisor
Federal D. Glover, District V Supervisor

Contact:

Mary Halle, 925.313.2327

I hereby certify that this is a true and correct copy of an action taken and entered on the minutes of the Board of Supervisors on the date shown.
ATTESTED: June 11, 2019
David Twa,

BY:	, Deputy

RECOMMENDATION(S):

INTRODUCE Ordinance 2019-17 to exempt accessory dwelling units (ADUs) approved under a ministerial permit from payment of certain transportation impact mitigation fees; WAIVE reading; and FIX June 18, 2019 for adoption.

FISCAL IMPACT:

The County will incur costs to publish the ordinance pursuant to Government Code section 66018, subdivision (b). The waiving of fees associated with these permits is anticipated to result in the loss of approximately $400,000 per year of revenue but will provide a benefit of approximately 50 additional dwelling units per year. The loss of revenue will be compensated by local road funds and increased efforts to compete for State and Federal Transportation funds. (100% Local Road Funds)

BACKGROUND:

At the March 26, 2019 Board of Supervisors (BOS) Meeting, an agenda item related to the update of the West Contra Costa Transportation Advisory Committee (WCCTAC) developer fee program resulted in dialogue amongst Board members related to encouraging the development of ADUs in response to the housing crisis. The Board requested that staff research a potential process to encourage the development of ADUs.

At the April 10, 2019 BOS meeting, staff’s follow up report to the Board indicated the potential to implement an umbrella ordinance that could ease fee collections for ADUs across certain traffic fee programs throughout the county. This action was discussed again at the April 24^th BOS meeting when the ordinance, related to the update to the WCCTAC fee program, provided for waiving fees on ADUs that are ministerial actions for an internal conversion ADU. At the April 24^th meeting, Board members again expressed their desire to relieve fees for this type of residential housing as it is one method to address the housing crisis with limited cost, time and impact.

The introduction of Ordinance 2019-17 is the first step to implementing the exemption of traffic fees on ADUs for all local Area of Benefit (AOB) transportation mitigation fee programs and for Tri-Valley Transportation Council (TVTC) regional transportation fee program where the TVTC Council has already directed staff to move forward with an exemption for ministerial ADUs.

The proposed ordinance and related fee exemption is introduced with this board item and will be presented to the Board for adoption at the June 18, 2019 BOS meeting.

Staff estimated the potential fiscal impact of this action based upon the assumption that the rate of ADU construction would remain consistent with the rate of permits issued for ADUs during 2017 and 2018. During this two year period, over 90 ADU permits were issued across the County.

CONSEQUENCE OF NEGATIVE ACTION:

If the Board does not approve the introduction of Ordinance 2019-17, the item cannot move forward to adoption.