HomeMy WebLinkAboutResolutions - No. 2023-272RESOLUTION NO. 2023-272
A RESOLUTION OF THE LODI CITY COUNCIL ADOPTING THE
2024 SAN JOAQUIN COUNTY MULTI -SPECIES HABITAT CONSERVATION AND
OPEN SPACE PLAN (SJMSCP) FEE
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WHEREAS, the City Council of the City of Lodi adopted an Ordinance (Lodi Municipal
Code Chapter 15.68) establishing the authority for collection of a Development Fee for the
San Joaquin County Multi -Species Habitat Conservation and Open Space Plan (SJMSCP) for
all new developments pursuant to the SJMSCP within the City of Lodi; and
WHEREAS, a "Fee Study" dated July 16, 2001 was prepared which analyzed and identified the
costs, funding, and cost -benefit of the San Joaquin County Multi -Species Habitat Conservation and Open
Space Plan; and
WHEREAS, the purpose of the SJMSCP Development Fee is to finance the goals and objectives
of the SJMSCP that include, but are not limited to, preserve land acquisition, preserve enhancement, land
management, and administration that compensate for such lands lost as a result of future development in
the City of Lodi and in San Joaquin County; and
WHEREAS, after considering the Fee Study and the testimony received at the public hearing, the
Lodi City Council approved said report, and further found that the future development in the City of Lodi
will need to compensate cumulative impacts to threatened, endangered, rare and unlisted SJMSCP
Covered Species and other wildlife and compensation for some non -wildlife related impacts to recreation,
agriculture, scenic values and other beneficial Open Space uses; and
WHEREAS, an "Updated Fee Study" was prepared in 2006, 2011, 2016 and 2020 which
analyzed and identified the costs and funding of the SJMSCP; and
WHEREAS, the SJMSCP Development Fees are divided into three categories: Category A —
Acquisition; Category B — Enhancement; and Category C — Land Management/Administration; and
WHEREAS, the 2024 SJMSCP Development Fees will be as shown in the following table:
2024 SJMSCP Development Fees
Habitat Type
Fee Per Acre
Open Space
$8,918
AG/Natural
$17,833
Vernal Pool (uplands)
Vernal Pool (wetted)
$69,408
$177,724
WHEREAS, to ensure that the SJMSCP development fees keep pace with inflation, annual
adjustments are made to the fees based on the method previously adopted by the Lodi City Council; and
WHEREAS, the method of annual adjustments was modified in 2011, 2016, and 2020; and
WHEREAS, the 2020 adjustment resulted in a minor change to Category A with an
adjustment to the easement to fee title percentage used in the fee model and Category C with
pivoting to a more robust diversified endowment investment for higher return on investment.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the Lodi City Council as follows:
The City Council finds and declares that the purposes and uses of the Development
Fee, and the determination of the reasonable relationship between the fees' uses and
the type of development project on which the fees are imposed, are all established in
Lodi Municipal Code Chapter 15.68 and remain valid, and the City Council therefore
adopts such determinations.
2. The 2024 Development Fee shall be as set forth in the following table and will be
effective January 1, 2024 — December 31, 2024.
2024 SJMSCP Development Fees
Habitat Type
Category A
Category B
Category C
Total Fee
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$8,917.66
Rounded
Fee
Open Space
$5,502.00 $3,019.00
$396.66
$8,918
AG/Natural
$11,003.00 $6.038.00
$792.15
$17,833.15
$17,833
Vernal Pool
(grasslands)
$52,545.00 $14,906.00
$1956.53
$69,407.53
$69,408
Vernal Pool
(wetted)
$52,748.00
$123,058.00
$1,918.14
$177,724.14
$177,724
3. The Fee provided in this resolution shall be effective sixty (60) days after the adoption of
this resolution.
Dated: December 6, 2023
I hereby certify that Resolution No. 2023-272 was passed and adopted by the City
Council of the City of Lodi in a regular meeting held December 6, 2023, by the following vote:
AYES: COUNCIL MEMBERS — Bregman, Craig, Nakanishi, Yepez, and
Mayor Hothi
NOES: COUNCIL MEMBERS — None
ABSENT: COUNCIL MEMBERS — None
ABSTAIN: COUNCIL MEMBERS — None
OLIVIA NASHED
City Clerk
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