Bill Text: CA AB579 | 2019-2020 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: Development fees: definition.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Failed) 2020-02-03 - From committee: Filed with the Chief Clerk pursuant to Joint Rule 56. [AB579 Detail]
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CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE—
2019–2020 REGULAR SESSION
| Assembly Bill | No. 579 |
| Introduced by Assembly Member Daly |
February 14, 2019 |
An act to amend Section 66000 of the Government Code, relating to land use.
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
AB 579, as amended, Daly.
Development fees: definition.
The Mitigation Fee Act authorizes a local agency to establish, increase, or impose various fees as a condition of approval of a development project, if specified requirements are met. The act defines a “fee” for these purposes to mean a monetary exaction other than a tax or special assessment, as specified, that is charged by a local agency to the applicant in connection with approval of a development project for the purpose of defraying all or a portion of the cost of public facilities related to the development project, and excludes from that definition certain fees, including, fees for processing applications for governmental regulatory actions or approvals, fees collected under development agreements, or fees collected pursuant to agreements with redevelopment agencies, as provided.
Existing law dissolved redevelopment agencies and community development agencies as of February 1, 2012, and provides for the designation of successor agencies to wind down the affairs of the dissolved redevelopment agencies.
This bill would expand revise the definition of a “fee” for these purposes of the Mitigation Fee Act by eliminating those exclusions. the
exclusion of fees collected pursuant to agreements with redevelopment agencies.
Digest Key
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The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
SECTION 1.
Section 66000 of the Government Code is amended to read:66000.
As used in this chapter:(a) “Development project” means any project undertaken for the purpose of development. “Development project” includes a project involving the issuance of a permit for construction or reconstruction, but not a permit to operate.
(b) “Fee” means a monetary exaction other than a tax or special assessment, whether established for a broad class of projects by legislation of general applicability or imposed on a specific project on an ad hoc basis, that is charged by a local agency to the applicant in connection with approval of a development project for the purpose of defraying all or a portion
of the cost of public facilities related to the development project. project, but does not include fees specified in Section 66477, fees for processing applications for governmental regulatory actions or approvals, or fees collected under development agreements adopted pursuant to Article 2.5 (commencing with Section 65864) of Chapter 4.
(c) “Local agency” means a county, city, whether general law or chartered, city and county, school district, special district, authority, agency, any other municipal public corporation or district, or other political subdivision of the state.
(d) “Public facilities” includes public
improvements, public services, and community amenities.
