DATE: May 3, 2022
TO: Mayor and City Council
FROM: Director of Public Works
SUBJECT
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Proposed Traffic Impact Fee and Nexus Study
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RECOMMENDATION
Recommendation
That the Council reviews and provides feedback on the proposed Traffic Impact Fee recommendations.
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SUMMARY
A traffic impact fee (TIF) is a one-time fee imposed on new development projects to help mitigate the cumulative transportation impacts of development growth. As importantly, a TIF will bring much-needed certainty to Hayward's development process at the onset of the application.
TIFs imposed on new development are based on the concept that traffic generated by the proposed development will cause a nearby traffic deficiency, such as an intersection exceeding a specific level of service or capacity. A TIF does not replace any transportation analysis requirements imposed by the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA). Also, while a TIF addresses cumulative impacts of all future development projects, it does not address specific or direct impacts from a proposed development. As a result, in some cases, a Local Transportation Analysis (LTA) may still be necessary.
Traffic consultants TJKM prepared the Multimodal Improvement Plan and TIF Nexus Study (Nexus Study) (Attachment II) that identifies locations of future traffic deficiencies as a result of future development, develops mitigations to these deficiencies, calculates total cost of capital improvements required to implement the mitigations, and provides a calculated maximum allowable traffic fee that would be legally defensible based on projected cumulative traffic impact from different development types.
To ensure that the City's proposed TIF rates are reasonable and will not impact the City's competitiveness and the desirable development in the City, the City retained economic consultants, Community Attributes, Inc. (CAI), to review the Nexus Study and assist the City in developin...
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