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Marina/I-880 Traffic Impact Fee 3 May 3, 2010 The analysis concluded that residents, patrons, and employees at new development built on properties that are distant from the interchange will use the facility less frequently than people traveling to new development built on property that is in close proximity to the Interchange. A zone of benefit has been established that extends roughly from East 14~' Street to the San Francisco Bay and from Manor Boulevard to San Leandro Creek. TJKM found that 34.03% of the peak. hour vehicle trips over the Interchange in 2030 will be generated by people traveling to new development within the zone of benefit. Most of these new trips were attributable to the proposed development at 1701 Marina Boulevard (Kaiser), for which a Preliminary Environmental Impact Report has been prepared and mitigation measures proposed. The remaining new development trips, 8.84% of the vehicle trips over the Interchange in 2030, will be generated by miscellaneous new development within the zone of benefit. Thus, the proposed supplemental impact fee should be used to collect 8.84% of the project cost, or $2,540,271.24 in today's dollars. The actual amount collected will be indexed to inflation so that the value of fees collected remains constant. Within the zone of benefit the frequency of use is averaged so that the impact fee rate per new peak hour trip is uniform. TJKM concluded that within the zone of benefit, 20.80% of new peak hour vehicle trips will use the Interchange. The fee for each newly created peak hour trip is 20.80% of the cost of a peak hour trip over the Interchange ($1,940.13) which is $403.56. The City currently collects a Developer Fee for Street Improvements for 13 individual land use types ranging from residential to retail. Traffic generation rates have been established for each land use type by the Institute of Transportation Engineers (ITE). The cost per trip of $403.56 will be multiplied by the number of trips generated to arrive at an impact fee for each land use type. The proposed fees for each category of land use are shown in the Traffic Fee Report, which is attached. Adoption of impact fees is regulated by Assembly Bill AB 1600, which specifies that the City must: (1) identify the purpose of the fee, and that the fee is needed to mitigate traffic impacts at the Interchange; (2) identify the use to which the fee is to be put, the fee will be used to fund design and construction of improvements to increase the capacity of the Interchange; (3) determine how there is a reasonable relationship between the fee's use and the type of development project on which the fee is imposed, it is appropriate to levy this fee on new development because people will use cars to travel to the new development; (4) determine how there is a reasonable relationship between the need for the public facility and the type of development project on which the fee is imposed, the existing public roadway is used at or near capacity, the additional vehicles traveling to new development will trigger a need for the improvements; and (5) determine how there is a reasonable relationship between the amount of the fee and the cost of the public facility attributable to the development on which the fee is imposed, the fee has been set by allocating a share of the cost to each new and existing vehicle trips over the Interchange. The attached Marina Boulevard/Interstate 880 Interchange Traffic Fee Report addresses the five findings necessary to establish a fee in more detail.