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ORD-18-89 ESTABLISHES THE POLICE FACILITY FEEl ORDINANCE NO. 18- 89 AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF ORANGE AMENDING TITLE 3 OF THE ORANGE MUNICIPAL CODE TO ADD CHAPTER 3.13 ESTABLISHING THE POLICE FACILITY DEVELOPMENT FEE.WHEREAS, the City of orange has a responsibility to provide for adequate and proper facilities and services to meet the needs of the citizens of Orange, including police facilities and administrative facilities at City Hall; and WHEREAS, the city Hall facilities are currently subject to 100% utilization, allowing no room for expansion of departments to meet the city's rapidly expanding demand for City services,including police services; and WHEREAS, in order to provide such facilities, a new main Police Facility of approximately 58,600 square feet with an adjoining parking structure will be constructed on land already owned by the City, at a projected cost of $14,275,000. 00,including design, construction, furnishings, and computer and communications systems, and the space currently occupied by the Orange Police Department in the Civic Center complex will be remodeled for use by other city departments and for future expansion of other City departments; and WHEREAS, the City Council finds that due to the centralized nature of most police and administrative services the new Police Facility and the remodeled Civic Center space will be required to service the needs of all areas of the city including the currently defined Sphere of Influence of the city; and WHEREAS, the cost of the Police Facility will be financed by means of Certificates of Participation issued by the Redevelopment Agency of the City of Orange (the "Agency"), which will be repaid by means of lease payments made by the City to the Agency, which Certificates of Participation will require payment of projected interest and other costs of $17,423,063.00; and WHEREAS, the analysis prepared by staff sets forth the relationship between new development, the needed Police Facility and Civic Center remodeling, and the estimated costs of those improvements, and was prepared under the direction of the City Manager, and is set forth in his report dated July 25, 1989; and WHEREAS, the city Manager's Report was available for public inspection and review fourteen (14) days prior to this public hearing; and WHEREAS, the City Council further finds as follows: A) The purpose of this fee is to finance that portion of the new main Police Facility and related remodeling of the civic Center space to be vacated by the Police Department needed to mitigate expected impacts caused by new development within the boundaries of the City of Orange and its Sphere of Influence. B) pursuant the cost The Police Facility Capital Development Fees collected to this ordinance shall be used to finance exclusively of above-referenced facilities.C) After considering the study and analysis contained in the City Manager's Report and the testimony received at this public hearing, the City Council approves said study, and finds that new development in the City of Orange will generate additional need for police and administrative services within the City and physical facilities needed for such services in the proportions described in the City Manager's Report.D) There is a need for the described facilities which have not yet been constructed or have been constructed, but new development has not contributed its fair share towards these facility costs and, and said facilities have been called for in or are consistent with the city's General Plan.E) There is a reasonable relationship between the need for the described public facilities and the impacts of the types of development described in section 3.13.060 below, for which the corresponding fee is charged, and, also there is a reasonable relationship between the fees' use and the type of development for which the fee is charged, as those relationships are in more detail described in the City Manager's Report.F) The cost estimates set forth in the City Manager' s Report are reasonable cost estimates for constructing and financing these facilities, and the fees expected to be collected by the City of Orange from any affected development project will not exceed the total of those costs attributable to the impact of that project.NOW, THEREFORE, THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF ORANGE ORDAINS AS FOLLOWS:section I:Chapter 3.13 is hereby added to the orange Municipal Code to read as follows:CHAPTER 3. 13 POLICE FACILITY DEVELOPMENT FEE ORD. NO. 18-89 2 - sections: 3.13.010 - Purpose 3. 13.020 - Fee 3.13. 030 - Building Permits and Conditional Use Permits Requiring Payment of Fee 3.13.040 - Exemptions 3.13.050 - Disposition of Proceeds - Fund Created 3.13.060 - Fee Rates 3. 13.070 - Amendment by Resolution 3. 13.010 - Purpose. The purpose of the Police Facility Development Fee is to fund that portion of the costs of: (a)building and financing the new headquarters building of the Orange Police Department and (b) remodeling space in the civic Center vacated by the Police Department upon completion of the new building; which are attributable to new development's fair share of the total costs for such projects.3. 13.020 - Fee. In addition to any other charges, there shall be a fee required as a condition precedent to the issuance of certain building permits and Conditional Use Permits for construction or improvements or use of the properties lying wholly or partially within the City of Orange. A Conditional Use Permit for a hospital or other health facility as set forth in Orange Municipal Code section 17.92.010 shall require an obligation to pay the fee as a condition of issuance. 3.13.030 - Buildina Permits and Conditional Use Permits Reauirina Pavrnent of Fee. The payment of a Police Facility Development Fee shall be required when the application indicates the following: A) A construction or improvement project which will result in an increase of floor area.B) The estimated cost of the proposed construction or improvement, as determined by the Building Official will exceed 10,000. 00. For purpose of this section, the valuation per square foot shall not exceed that listed in the latest edition of Buildina Standards Maaazine containing a Building Valuation Data Chart. For projects which require a City building permit, the fee shall be paid before the building permit is issued. For hospitals and other health facility projects which require a conditional Use Permit, a requirement obligating the applicant to pay the Police Facility Development Fee before the project's grading plan is approved shall be imposed as a condition for issuance of the Conditional Use Permit.3.13.040 - Exemptions. The following construction and improvements are exempt from the requirements of this Chapter.A) Building additions or improvements to single-family residential units and accessory structures to be constructed on parcels in any single-Family R-1 District.3 -ORD NO. 18-89 WI B) Tenant and owner improvements and maintenance work which will not increase the floor area of existing structures. C) Replacement of structures in size and function as the result of fire, earthquake, flood, or other acts of God or of the public enemy. D) open parking garages that are not part of any other structure or used or intended for supporting or sheltering any use of occupancy other than parking of vehicles. E) Existing buildings erected prior to the adoption of this Chapter, or one for which a valid building permit has been issued, unless the development was previously conditioned to participate in or pay a fee related to providing police or administrative facilities or services. 3.13.050 - Disposition of Proceeds - Fund Created. All proceeds from fees collected under this Chapter shall be paid into a special fund of the city of Orange entitled "Police Facility Development Fund", which fund is hereby created. The fund shall be used only for the purposes stated in section 3.13. 010.3.13. 060 - Fee Rates.following rates unless and city Council under section The fee shall be payable at the until modified by resolution of the 3.13.070: New Residential Dwelling units - $334.48 per unit.New Non Residential Development - $. 20 per square foot of floor space.3.13.070 - Amendment bv Resolution. The fee rates which are set forth in section 3.13. 060 of this Chapter and other provisions of this Chapter affecting the amounts of fees to be paid may be revised, deleted or otherwise amended by Resolution of the city Council.Section II: A summary of this Ordinance shall be published and a certified copy of the full text of this Ordinance shall be posted in the Office of the city Clerk at least five (5) days prior to the City Council meeting at which this Ordinance is to be adopted. A summary of this Ordinance shall also be published once within fifteen (15) days after this Ordinance's passage in the Orange city News, a newspaper of general circulation,published, and circulated in the city of Orange. The City Clerk shall post in the Office of the city Clerk a certified copy of the full text of such adopted Ordinance along with the names of those City Council members voting for and against the Ordinance in accordance with Government Code Section 36933. Pursuant to Government Code Section 65962 this Ordinance shall take effect sixty (60) days from and after the date of its final passage.i l l I.ORD. NO. 18- 89 4 - Section III. If any section, subsection, sentence, clause or phrase of this Ordinance is for any reason held to be invalid or unconstitutional, such decision shall not affect the validity of the remaining portions of this Ordinance. The City Council declares that it would have passed this Ordinance, and each section, subsection, sentence, clause and phrase thereof, irrespective of the fact that anyone or more sections, subsections, sentences, clauses or phrases have been declared invalid or unconstitutional, and if for any reason this Ordinance shall be declared unvalid or unconstitutional, then the remaining provision or provisions of the Ordinance shall be in full force and effect. ADOPTED this 22nd day of AUGUST 1989. f ayor of the city of range ATTEST: Ci~thPci~ STATE OF CALIFORNIA ) COUNTY OF ORANGE ) CITY OF ORANGE ) I, MARILYN J. JENSEN, City Clerk of the City of Orange, California, do hereby certify that the foregoing Ordinance was introduced at the regular meeting of the City Council held on the ~3tR day of Tl1TV , 1988, and thereafter at the regular meet1n& of said City Council duly held on the 22nd day of A GUST , 1989, was duly passed and adopted by the following vote, to wit: AYES:COUNCIL MEMBERS: BARRERA, MAYOR SMITH, BEYER, COONTZ NOES:COUNCIL MEMBERS: NONE ABSENT:COUNCIL MEMBERS: STEINER city Clerk f ttVc~ of Oran e 5 -ORD. NO. 18-89