TRANSPORTATION CORRIDORY AGENCY - PUBLIC HEARING NOTICE - EST 1986

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MAJOR THOROUGHFARE AND BRIDGE FEE PROGRAM FOR SAN JOAQUIN RILLS AND FOOTHILL /EASTERN TRANSPORTATION CORRIDORS I. BACKGROUND Government Code Sections 50029 and 66484.3 and California Constitution Article 11, Section 7 permits the establishment of local ordinances to require payment of fees as a condition of approval of a final map or as a condition of issuing a building permit for purposes of defraying the actual or estimated cost of constructing bridges over waterways, railways, freeways and canyons, or constructing major thoroughfares. Pursuant to the above provisions of the Government Code, and the Police - Powers the Board of Supervisors adopted Section 7 -9 -316 of the Orange County Codified Ordinances providing for the establishment of major thoroughfare and bridge construction fees to be paid by subdividers and building permit applicants in the County of Orange. On April 21, 1982, the Board of Supervisors, by Resolution 82 -598, directed the Environmental Management Agency (EMA) to begin analyzing .s potential areas of benefit as an adjunct to the Orange County /Orange County Transportation Commission - Transportation Finance Study and to proceed with the establishment of a fee program. The Board, furthermore, determined that developers of subdivisions which contain portions of any transportation corridor, would dedicate sight -of -way, grade and construct necessary portions of the corridor and participate in any established ° corridor fee program. On February 15, 1983 the Board of Supervisors, by Resolution 83 -239, iden- ( i tified interim areas of impact for the San Joaquin Hills and Foothill /Eastern Transportation Corridors and directed EMA to require d subdividers to enter into contracts to participate in corridor implement- ation pending establishment of a fee program. On September 28, 1983, EMA submitted a report on the Transportation Corridor Fee Programs to the Board of Supervisors for referral to the Planning Commission for recommendations. Public meetings were subse- quently held by the Planning Commission on October 11 and November 1, 1983 _- to consider the Major Thoroughfare and Bridge Fee Programs. On January 30, 1984 the Planning Commission adopted Resolution No. 45 -83 recommending that the Board of Supervisors adopt Major Thoroughfare and Bridge Fee Programs for the San Joaquin Hills Transportation Corridor and the Foothill/Eastern Transportation Corridor. On October 3, 1984 the Board of Supervisors, by Resolution 84 -1462, adopted areas of Benefit and Major Thoroughfare and Bridge fees within unincorporated Orange County for the San Joaquin Hills and Foothill/Eastern Transportation Corridors. Subsequent cooperative analysis of the fee program by Orange County, Orange County Transportation -3-