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5674ORDINANCE NO. 5674 AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF ANAHEIM AMENDING TITLE 17 OF THE ANAHEIM MUNICIPAL CODE RELATING TO DEVELOPMENT FEES WITHIN THE ANAHEIM STADIUM BUSINESS CENTER AND CITY-WIDE TRANSPORTATION IMPACT FEES WHEREAS, Chapters 17.30 and 17.31 were added to the Anaheim Municipal Code for the purpose of establishing fees to provide for public improvements made necessary by proposed and anticipated high-intensity and high-density development in the Anaheim Stadium Business Center ("Stadium Area") bounded on the east by the Santa Ana River, on the south by the Anaheim city limits, on the west by the Santa Ana Freeway, and on the north by the Southern California Edison easement, which easement is generally located parallel to and north of Katella Avenue; and WHEREAS, amendments to the General Plan for the Stadium Business Center and the Anaheim Stadium Area Master Land Use Plan have established a land use plan necessitating a restructuring of the fees for the Stadium Area through which such Stadium Area fees will only be required to develop sewer improvements west of State College Boulevard in the Katella Corridor District; and WHEREAS, as the result of this restructuring of fees, the fees collected under Chapter 17.31 will no longer be necessary; and WHEREAS, the credit provisions for the Stadium Area currently applicable under Section 17.32.070 will no longer be relevant since the restructuring of the Stadium Area fee eliminates the funding for transportation improvements within the Stadium Area fee structure; and WHEREAS, the city-wide transportation impact fee under Chapter 17.32 will continue to apply to the Stadium Area. NOW, THEREFORE, THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF ANAHEIM HEREBY ORDAINS AS FOLLOWS: SECTION 1 That Section 17.30.020 of Chapter 17.30 of Title 17 of the Anaheim Municipal Code be, and the same is hereby, amended to read as follows: "17.30.020 IMPOSITION OF FEE. There is hereby imposed on all owners or developers of buildings or structures within the Anaheim Stadium Business Center hereafter constructed, 4nlarged or modified in use wherein the proposed use is changed to a more intensive use, sewer impact fees. The City Council shall, by Council resolution, set forth the specific amount of the fees, describe the specific public improvements to be financed, describe the estimated cost of these facilities, describe the reasonable relationship between this fee and the various types of new developments and set forth time for payment." SECTION 2. That Section 17.30.050 of Chapter 17.30 of Title 17 of the Anaheim Municipal Code be, and the same is hereby, amended to read as follows: "17.30.050 METHODS OF PAYMENT. The fee imposed by this chapter may be paid by payment in full at the time of issuance of the building permit or prior to occupancy of the building (if no building permit is required)." SECTION 3. That Section 17.30.060 of Chapter 17.30 of Title 17 of the Anaheim Municipal Code be, and the same is hereby, amended to read as follows: "17.30.060 REVIEW AND ADJUSTMENT OF FEE. On an annual basis, the City Council shall review the Sewer fees to determine whether the fee amounts are reasonably related to the impacts of developments and whether the described public facilities are still needed. The City Council may, periodically by resolution, adjust the amount of the fee established by this chapter in accordance with the construction cost index for construction costs in the Los Angeles area published in the Engineering News -Record Construction Cost Index." 2 SECTION 4. That Section 17.30.070 of Chapter 17.30 of Title 17 of the Anaheim�Municipal Code be, and the same is hereby, amended to read as follows: "17.30.070 EXEMPTIONS This chapter shall not apply to: .010 Any structure or any portion thereof devoted to parking of automobiles. .020 Conversion of a building or structure to a similar or less intensive land use. .030 Reconstruction of any building or structure destroyed by fire or other natural cause. .040 Construction of any building or structure approved by the City of Anaheim under a Development Agreement entered into before the effective date of this Ordinance. .050 That portion of any building or structure ("new structure") which is constructed as a replacement for a substantially similar use of a building or structure ("original structure") which existed on the property within ninety days immediately preceding commencement of such construction. For purposes of calculating the fee payable pursuant to this chapter, the units and/or floor area of the original structure shall be deducted from the units and/or floor area of the new structure. .060 That portion of any building or structure which is enlarged or expanded and which portion existed on such property immediately prior to commencement of such enlargement or expansion, provided the use of such portion is not otherwise changed. For purposes of calculating the sewer impact fee payable pursuant to this chapter, the units and/or floor area of the existing structure shall be deducted from the units and/or floor area of the total structure." 3 SECTION S. That Section 17.30.076 be, and the same is hereby, added to Chapter 17.30 of Title 17 of the Anaheim Municipal Code to read as follows: "I"7.30.076 CREDITS. .010 Construction of Facility. Whenever an owner or developer is required, as a condition of approval of a development permit, to construct a sewer facility required by the Stadium Area Master Land Use Plan Supplement to the South Central Area Sewer Deficiency Study within the Anaheim Stadium Business Area and when such construction is necessary to provide efficient and timely construction of the facilities, a credit against the fee which would otherwise be charged pursuant to this chapter on the development project shall be available to the owner or developer upon completion of the facility (but only to the extent of the fee), provided a project expenditure certification is approved by the City Engineer and that engineering costs are limited to amounts specified in the "Stadium Area Master Land Use Plan (West of State College Boulevard) Supplement to the South Central Area Sewer Deficiency Study, Second Revision, dated January, 1999. .020 Duplicative Fees. Fees or payments which are determined by the City Engineer to be duplicative of the sanitary sewer fees imposed by this chapter shall be credited against any fee (but only to the extent of the fee) which would otherwise be charged pursuant to this chapter. .030 Dedications. The reasonable value of land dedicated for sewer improvement purposes for a facility within the Anaheim Stadium Business Center, as such facility is set forth in the "Stadium Area Master Land Use Plan (West of State College Boulevard) Supplement to the South Central Area Sewer Deficiency Study, Second Revision, dated January, 1999," as said value is determined by the City Engineer shall be credited against any fee (but only to the extent of the fee) which would otherwise be charged pursuant to this chapter." SECTION 6. That Chapter 17.31 of Title 17 of the Anaheim Municipal Code be, and the same is hereby, deleted in its entirety. 4 SECTION 7. That Section 17.32.070 of Chapter 17.32 of Title 17 of the Anaheim Municipal Code be, and the same is hereby, amended to read as follows: `R17.32.070 CREDITS .010 Construction of Facility. Whenever an owner or developer is required, as a condition of approval of a development permit, to construct a Master Plan of Highways Public Facility and when such construction is necessary to provide efficient and timely construction of the facilities network, a credit against the fee which would otherwise be charged pursuant to this chapter on the development project shall be available to the owner or developer upon completion of the facility (but only to the extent of the fee), provided a project expenditure certification is approved by the Traffic Transportation Manager and that engineering costs are limited to amounts specified in the Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act. If the amount of the fee established by the City Council is based upon a discounted percentage of the actual costs of mitigating the impacts. .020 Duplicative Fees. Fees paid for participation in the Santa Ana Canyon Road Community Facilities District or for any other fees or payments which are determined by the City Engineer to be duplicative of the fees imposed by this Chapter shall be credited against any fee (but only to the extent of the fee) which would otherwise be charged pursuant to this chapter. .030 Dedications. The reasonable value of land dedicated for road and improvement purposes for a Master Plan of Highways Public Facility as said value is determined by the City Engineer shall be credited against any fee (but only to the extent of the fee) which would otherwise be charged pursuant to this chapter. If the amount of the fee established by the City Council is based upon a discounted percentage of the actual costs of mitigating the impacts of new development, the amount of credit available pursuant to this subsection shall be correspondingly discounted." SECTION 8. SEVERABILITY The City Council of the City of Anaheim hereby declares that should any section, paragraph, sentence or word of this 5 ordinance of the Code, hereby adopted, be declared for any reason to be invalid, it is the intent of the Council that it would have passed all other portions of this ordinance independent of the elimination herefrom of any such portion as may be declared invalid. SMTION 9. SAVINGS CLAUSE Neither the adoption of this ordinance nor the repeal of any other ordinance of this City shall in any manner affect the prosecution for violations of ordinances, which violations were committed prior to the effective date hereof, nor be construed as a waiver of any license or penalty or the penal provisions applicable to any violation thereof. The provisions of this ordinance, insofar as they are substantially the same as ordinance provisions previously adopted by the City relating to the same subject matter, shall be construed as restatements and continuations, and not as new enactments. SECTION 10. PENALTY It shall be unlawful for any person, firm or corporation to violate any provision or to fail to comply with any of the requirements of this ordinance. Any person, firm or corporation violating any provision of this ordinance or failing to comply with any of its requirements shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof shall be punished by a fine not exceeding One Thousand Dollars ($1,000.00) or by imprisonment not exceeding six (6) months, or by both such fine and imprisonment. Each such person, firm or corporation shall be deemed guilty of a separate offense for each day during any portion of which any violation of any of the provisions of this ordinance is committed, continued or permitted by such person, firm or corporation, and shall be punishable therefor as provided for in this ordinance. THE FOREGOING ORDINANCE is approved and adopted by the City Council of the City of Anaheim this 16th day of March 1999. MAYOR OF THE CITY 00 ANAHEIM ATTES . ,P A� Al A W S�4( ITY CLERK OF THE CITY OF ANAHEIM 29553.2 31 STATE OF CALIFORNIA ) COUNTY OF ORANGE ) ss. CITY OF ANAHEIM ) I, LEONORA N. SOHL, City Clerk of the City of Anaheim, do hereby certify that the foregoing Ordinance No. 5674 was introduced at a regular meeting of the City Council of the City of Anaheim, held on the 2nd day of March, 1999, and that the same was duly passed and adopted at a regular meeting of said City Council held on the 16th day of March, 1999, by the following vote of the members thereof: AYES: MAYOR/COUNCIL MEMBERS: NOES: MAYOR/COUNCIL MEMBERS: ABSENT: MAYOR/COUNCIL MEMBERS Feldhaus, Kring, Tait, McCracken, Daly None None AND I FURTHER CERTIFY that the Mayor of the City of Anaheim signed said Ordinance No. 5674 on the 16th day of March 1999. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the official seal of the City of Anaheim this 16th day of March, 1999. CITY CLERK OF THE CITY OF ANAHEIM (SEAL) I, LEONORA N. SOHL, City Clerk of the City of Anaheim, do hereby certify that the foregoing is the original of Ordinance No. 5674 and was published once in the North County News on the 25th day of March, 1999. CITY CLERK OF THE CITY OF ANAHEIM PROOF OF PUBLICATION STATE OF CALIFORNIA, ) ss. County of Orange, ) I am a citizen of the United States and a resident of the County aforesaid; I am over the age of twenty one years, and not a party to or interested in the above entitled matter. I am the principal clerk of the Anaheim Bulletin, a newspaper that has been adjudged to be a newspaper of general circulation by the Superior Court of the County of Orange, State of California, on December 28, 1951, Case No. A-21021 in and for the City of Anaheim, County of Orange, State of California; that the notice, of which the annexed is a true printed copy, has been published in each regular and entire issue of said newspaper and not in any supplement thereof on the following dates, to wit: "I certify (or declare) under the penalty of perjury under the laws of the State of California that the foregoing is true and correct": Date March 25, , 19Qq / Signature Anaheim Bulletin 1771 S. Lewis St. Anaheim, CA 92805 (714) 634-1567 This space is for the County Clerk's Filing Stamp 40-16 m Proof of Publication of PROOF OF PUBLICATION