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City of San Leandro Park Impact Fee Study <br /> As previously noted, this documentation assumes that the City of San Leandro will enter into <br /> Joint Facility Use Agreements with the San Leandro and San Lorenzo Unified School Districts <br /> for joint use of school playfields and other recreational facilities. This will increase the <br /> availability of parkland, particularly for certain under - served neighborhoods. Although the City <br /> would prefer to purchase and develop new parks in these areas, it is constrained by the absence <br /> of suitable sites. The availability of school sites during non - school hours adds another 86.5 acres <br /> of active parkland. <br /> The total inventory of park and recreational facilities is shown in Table 2. <br /> The City of San Leandro General Plan recognizes the need for continued and expanded <br /> availability of park and recreational facilities. This sentiment is strongly echoed in the Parks <br /> Needs Assessment. Hence, the City anticipates the need for both the acquisition of new land and <br /> development of new facilities (whenrpossible), and the expansion and intensification of existing <br /> • <br /> facilities when additional land is not available for acquisition. <br /> The City is also planning to improve its parks and recreational facilities for its existing <br /> residential population. These improvements are not included in the following calculations of <br /> existing facilities standards, nor in the calculations of the proposed fee. <br /> EXISTING FACILITY STANDARDS AND VALUATION OF <br /> • <br /> EXISTING SITES AND FACILITIES <br /> • <br /> Park planning is often guided by the Quimby Act, which sets forth legislated parkland acreage <br /> standards to be applied to new development under subdivision requirements. The Quimby Act <br /> does not explicitly address the improvement (landscaping and facilitation) of this land for use by <br /> residents. In this report, existing standards for total parkland acreage, along with the estimated <br /> value of both land and improvements (i.e., structures, landscaping, and so on), are used to <br /> calculate an impact fee that takes account of both acquisition and development costs for . <br /> parkland. The methodology follows Government Code Section 66000 et seq., as noted above. <br /> Hausradz Economics Group 6 <br />