HomeMy WebLinkAbout2002-11-26 - AGENDA REPORTS - STORMDRN FEE ELECTION (2)CITY OF SANTA CLARITA
AGENDA REPORT
PUBLIC HEARING
City Manager Approval:
Item to be presented by: Jason Smisko
DATE: November 26, 2002
SUBJECT: PUBLIC HEARING FOR THE SITE SPECIFIC STORM DRAINAGE FEE
ELECTION AND ADOPTING RESOLUTION, IMPOSING SITE SPECIFIC
STORM DRAINAGE POLLUTION ABATEMENT FEE FOR THE CREEKSIDE
DEVELOPMENT WEST OF MCBEAN PARKWAY AND NORTH OF
NEWHALL RANCH ROAD, TRACT 44831, LOTS 1-22.
DEPARTMENT: Planning & Building Services
RECOMMENDED ACTION
Conduct public hearing, adopt resolution making findings regarding election results, setting site specific
Storm Drainage Utility Fees for the Creekside development.
BACKGROUND
On July 1, 1993, the City of Santa Clarita became subject to the federal stormwater permitting program
(National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System or NPDES). The City's NPDES permit requires that
the City reduce the amount of pollution entering the creeks, rivers, and ocean from storms or other
sources of water that wash over lands within the City. In July 1996, the City received a new NPDES
permit that included many new requirements for the City and developers to implement. One development
requirement specific to the NPDES permit is the treatment (removal of pollutants) of approximately 1/4 of
an inch of every rain event. On December 13, 2001, the City received the current NPDES permit that
reiterates this requirement. Furthermore, the permit requires the City to insure that ongoing maintenance
of these facilities will occur.
At the January 4, 2000 Study Session, the City Council determined that most water quality facilities
established to treat stormwater runoff will be maintained, operated, improved, or replaced privately.
Under certain circumstances, however, public maintenance of water quality facilities may be desired.
Private funding for maintenance of the infiltration basin and outlets at Creekside will be provided through
a Site Specific Storm Drainage Pollution Abatement Fee. This is the case for Creekside because of the
project's use of soil cement. Los Angeles County Department of Public Works will not take on the
maintenance of outlets through soil cement and infiltration basins.
On February 22, 2000, the City Council adopted an ordinance amending Title 15, Chapter 15.50 of the
Santa Clarita Municipal Code Entitled: Storm Drainage Utility Enterprise Fund. This ordinance
amendment gave the City of Santa Clarita the authority to establish a system of specific user charges for
any water quality facilities that are site specific. These charges are in addition to the Storm Drainage
Pollution Abatement Charges that are currently levied on parcels in the City and would be established for
individual projects, based on the annual cost to maintain, operate, improve and /or replace the facilities.
In addition, the Site Specific Storm Drainage Pollution Abatement Fee will include an annual inflation
adjustment in accordance with the Consumer Price Index (CPI) for Los Angeles, Long Beach, and
Anaheim, for April of each year.
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In the case of the Creekside Development the property owner has decided to take a proactive role in
becoming compliant with the NPDES permit. Rather than directing their urban runoff to flow into the
City's storm drain system, the Creekside Development will direct its urban runoff and stormwater runoff
into a filter detention basin. The annual budget for maintenance of this water quality facility includes
funding for monthly inspections, landscaping and debris removal as well as annualized reserve funds for
erosion control, sediment removal and revegetation, and for hazardous material removal (if required) and
for sediment clean-out of five outlets to San Francisquito Creek. For the City of Santa Clarita to provide
the necessary maintenance of the filter basin and outlets, the residents of the Creekside Development will
be required to pay a Site Specific Storm Drainage Pollution Abatement Charge (please reference
Attachment A: the Creekside Development west of McBean Parkway and north of Newhall Ranch Road,
Tract 44831, Lots 1-22 Stormwater Fee Report) in addition to the Storm Drainage Pollution Abatement
Charge levied on all residences in the City of Santa Clarita.
Proposition 218 requires that if a new fee is imposed on a property, a majority protest hearing shall be
held not less than 45 days after the mailing of the public notice. If no majority protest occurs, the City
shall mail a public notice of the proposed fee with a ballot to all property owners and hold a public
hearing not less than 45 days after the mailing of the public notice and ballot. If after the closing of the
public hearing, property owners elect to impose a fee, the City Council may adopt a resolution canvassing
ballots and imposing a Site Specific Storm Drainage Pollution Abatement Fee. By signing the attached
waiver, the owners of the above-mentioned property have decided to waive the notice periods for this
process. Attached are the appropriate documents needed for this approval, including the signed waiver,
public hearing notice, and ballot approving the site specific storm drainage utility charge for the
Creekside Development.
ALTERNATIVE ACTION
No alternative action is identified by staff
FISCAL IMPACT
The anticipated annual costs associated with the maintenance for the additional water quality facility
located in the Creekside Development is $26,432. Based upon the proposed development of 815 Single
Family Dwellings (SFD), the annual levy will be $32.43 per parcel. This will result in anticipated
additional revenues in the Stormwater Utility Fund (Fund 456) in the amount of $26,430 to recover the
costs of the additional maintenance. The annual levy of $32.43 per parcel is subject to bi-annual review
and adjustment based on actual expenditures. The implementation of the site specific Storm Drainage
Utility Fee will coincide with the completion and with transference of the site's stormwater facility (filter
detention basin) as the project is constructed. The developer has suggested that this could occur as early
as May 2003.
ATTACHMENTS
Resolution
Stormwater Fee Report.
Notice of Public Hearing
Notice of Public Hearing mailed ballot election
Waiver
Ballot
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CITY CLERK OFFICE
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Santa Clarita, CA 91355 CITY OF SANTA CLARITA
LETTER OF TRANSMITTAL
Attached is the signed Waiver and the Ballot for Tract 44831, Lot Numbers 1-22, Creekside.
Helena Delu
Project Manager, Residential
Valencia Division
Enclosure
THE NEWHALL LAND AND FARMING COMPANY, 23623 VALENCIA BOULEVARD, VALENCIA, CA 91 355 -2194
TEL 661 .255,4000 FAx 661.255.3960 WEBSITE: www.newhalLGom
WAIVER
OF CERTAIN PROCEDURES RELATING TO IMPLEMENTATION OF FEES AND
CHARGES FOR THE CITY OF SANTA CLARITA'S SITE SPECIFIC STORM DRAINAGE
UTILITY SERVICES
The Honorable Mayor and
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annexed to the City of Santa Clarita (the "City"), and we hereby agree as follows:
We acknowledge and understand that pursuant to California Constitution Article XIIIC,
Section 6, we have a right to the following:
a. We have the right to 45 days prior written notice of a public hearing to -be held by
the City Council to consider the imposition of a proposed increase in stormwater
drainage service fees, such notice to include:
1. The amount of the proposed additional stormwater drainage services fee
to be imposed upon each parcel of land;
2. The basis upon which the amount of the proposed additional fee was
calculated;
3. The reason for the additional fee; and
4. The date, time and location of the public hearing on the proposed
additional fee.
b. We have the right to submit at the public hearing protests against the proposed
Site Specific Storm Drainage Pollution Abatement Fee.
c. We have the right to vote in an election on the imposition of the proposed Site
Specific Storm Drainage Pollution Abatement Fee to be held not sooner than 45
days after the public hearing.
2. It being our intention that the City proceed as quickly as possible with the imposition of
the Site Specific Storm Drainage Pollution Abatement Fee, we waive all otherwise
applicable times for the conduct by you of the public hearing and the election to order the
levy of the additional stormwater drainage services fee.
In furtherance of said waiver, we agree that said public hearing and election proceedings
may be consolidated and that said election may be conducted by mailed or hand -
delivered ballot to be returned as quickly as possible to the office of the City Clerk of the
City of Santa Clarita and that the results of said election be canvassed and reported to you
as soon as possible.
Respectfully submitted,
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BALLOT
CITY OF SANTA CLARITA, CALIFORNIA
SITE SPECIFIC STORM DRAINAGE POLLUTION ABATEMENT FEE
BALLOT PROCEEDING
November 26, 2002
Parcel No(s): Tract 44831, Lot Numbers 1-22
Record Owner: Newhall Land & Farming Company
Address: 23823 Valencia Boulevard
Santa Clarita, California 91355
Proposed Fee Formula: $26,432 / 137 acres = $192.93 per acre
Proposed Annual Fee: Estimated $32.43 per unit (based on the estimated construction of
815 units on Lots 1-22).
This ballot represents one (1) vote.
To vote, place a mark in the voting square after the word "YES" or after the word "NO."
If you wrongly mark, tear, or deface this ballot, return it to the City Clerk as the election official
and obtain another.
STORMWATER DRAINAGE SERVICE FEE: Shall the City of Santa Clarita be authorized to
impose upon the parcel(s) set forth on this ballot a Site Specific Storm Drainage Pollution
Abatement Fee up to but not exceeding $32.43 per Unit, subject to an annual adjustment for
inflation for April of each year, as proposed for adoption by the City of Santa Clarita, to pay for
authorized public improvements and maintenance thereof, all as described in The Report, a copy
of which was transmitted together with this ballot. This specific fee is in addition to the City of
Santa Clarita's Storm Drainage Pollution Abatement Service Fee.
YES 92 NO ❑
ERTY �WNER 1,
UNSIGNED BALLOTS WILL NOT BE