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MAJOR THOROUGHFARE AND BRIDGE FEE PROGRAM FOR SAN JOAQUIN HILLS AND FOOTHILL/EASTERN TRANSPORTATION CORRIDORS I. BACKGROUND Government Code Sections 50029 and 66484.3 permit 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 in Orange County. Pursuant to the above provisions of the Government Code, 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 potential Areas of Benefit, 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 right -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, identified interim Areas of Impact for the San Joaquin Hills and Foothill/Eastern Transportation Corridors and directed EMA to require subdividers to enter into contracts to participate in corridor implementation pending establishment of a fee program. On January 30, 1984, the Orange County 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 No. 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 analyses of the fee program by Orange County, Orange County Transportation Commission, the Building Industry Association of Southern California, Orange County Region, and cities within these Areas of Benefit 223512_2.DOC