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City of San Leandro Page S-1 Parks Development Impact Fee Study May 14, 2025 The City of San Leandro retained NBS Government Finance Group to prepare this study to analyze the impacts of new development on the City’s parks and to calculate impact fees based on that analysis. The methods used in this study are intended to satisfy all legal requirements of the U.S. Constitution, the California Constitution and the California Mitigation Fee Act (Government Code Sections 66000 et seq.) and the Quimby Act (Government Code Section 66477) where applicable. Organization of the Report Chapter 1 of this report provides an overview of the legal requirements for establishing and imposing such fees, and methods that can be used to calculate impact fees. Chapter 2 contains data on existing and future residential development used in this report. Chapter 3 analyzes the impacts of development on park land and improvements and calculates park land in-lieu fees, park land impact fees, and park improvement impact fees. Chapter 4 contains recommendations for adopting and implementing impact fees, including suggested findings to satisfy the requirements of the Mitigation Fee Act. Appendix A to this report provides a comparison of San Leandro’s existing park impact fees and the impact fees calculated in this report with the cities of Alameda, Concord, Dublin, Hayward, and Walnut Creek. The purpose of the comparison is to provide a sense of the regional and/or comparable pricing for impact fees, and to use that information to gauge the need for possible adjustments to the recommended fees. It should be noted that comparisons to other agencies do not provide information about the cost recovery policies or procedures followed in relation to their impact fees. A “market based” decision to price services below the maximum impact fee calculation, is the same as deciding to subsidize that service. Survey efforts are sometimes also non-conclusive for certain fee categories and development types because of varied terminology and approaches to calculating impact fees. Development Data Chapter 2 of this report presents estimates of existing residential development in San Leandro and a forecast of future development through 2035. San Leandro is a largely built-out city and new development mostly involves infill or intensification and redevelopment, so forecasting future development involves considerable uncertainty. It is important to note that the methods used to calculate impact fees in this report do not depend on forecasts of future development. It is important to note that because of provisions of AB 602 that were incorporated into California law effective in 2022, impact fee categories for residential development in this study are defined in terms of unit size categories, broken down by square footage. Prior to the adoption of AB 602 it was common practice to base residential impact fees on unit type categories (e.g., single-family or multi- family units). Executive Summary