HomeMy WebLinkAbout4/3/2018 Item 11, Blakely
D AVID B LAKELY
861 S KYLINE D RIVE
S AN L UIS O BISPO, CA 93405
P HONE 805.438-5956
4385956@gmail.com
March 28, 2018
Honorable Heidi Harmon and San Luis Obispo City Council
City of San Luis Obispo
990 Palm Street
San Luis Obispo, CA 93401
emailcouncil@slocity.org
Re: Item 11 on the April 3, 2018 City Council Agenda
11. PUBLIC HEARING CAPITAL FACILITIES FEE PROGRAM UPDATE/NEXUS STUDY (AB 1600)
ORDINANCE INTRODUCTION AND WATER AND WASTEWATER DEVELOPMENT IMPACT FEE
PROGRAM (CODRON / FOWLER 120 MINUTES
Page 11 of the Staff Report on this item ( Packet Pg 226)
Water and Wastewater Capacity and Connection Fees On October 17, 2017, City Council also
considered final adoption of the Water and Wastewater Capacity and Connection Fees (Attachment I).
City Council deferred the adoption of the proposed fees to better understand the total fee burden on
new development.
The October 17, 2017 staff report included a recommendation and three alternatives (Attachment H).
Based on Council direction received during the subsequent study session related to the CFF Study and
the total fee burden, Alternative 1 for water and Alternative 3 for wastewater proposed on October 17,
2017 are now recommended. This change results in the removal of $22.7 million and $10.9 million of
capital infrastructure for water and wastewater respectively from the fee program placing a greater
portion of the capital improvement cost on water and wastewater ratepayers. Returning to the term
the alternative fee.
I hope that your council reconsiders its position on this fee. I feel that new growth and development should pay
its fair share for its costs to the City.
and wastewater ratepayers. subsidizes growth in the city.
I understand that your council is concerned that making the fees too high might hurt the housing affordability
goals of the City. This is a noble goal but can be achieved by subsidizing or reducing the fees on the housing
that is in fact affordable. The City should not put the burdens of new growth on the backs of the existing rate
payers.
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New growth should not only pay its fair share of new costs to our water and waste water systems it should also
contribute to the sunk cost for existing infrastructure that it will use.
Please ensure that new growth pays for all of its impacts and that the residents of the city do not subsidize
growth.
Sincerely,
David Blakely
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