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City of San Leandro Page 3-1 Parks Development Impact Fee Study May 14, 2025 This chapter calculates impact fees for park land acquisition, park improvements, and park maintenance vehicles and equipment. As authorized by the Quimby Act (Government Code Section 66477), Article 8. Dedications and Reservations of the City’s Municipal Code requires that residential subdivisions dedicate land for parks or pay a fee in-lieu of dedication. That chapter contains formulas for determining the amount of land to be dedicated and the amount of any fees to be paid in-lieu of dedication. Those requirements apply only to residential development projects that involve a subdivision or parcel map. This chapter calculates updated park land in-lieu fees, which the City may choose to adopt instead of the case-by-case in-lieu fee calculations required by the current ordinance. The park improvement impact fees calculated in this chapter, which include the cost of improvements to park land, as well as park maintenance vehicles and equipment, are intended to apply to all residential development in the City, in addition to any in-lieu fees or impact fees for park land acquisition. Methodology This chapter calculates impact fees using the existing inventory method discussed in Chapter 1. With that method, impact fees are based on the existing level of service so that the impact fees will provide the funding needed to maintain that existing level of service as the City grows. Service Area The impact fees calculated in this chapter are intended to apply Citywide. Demand Variable A “demand variable” is a quantifiable attribute of development that is used in impact fee calculation formulas to represent the impact of development. The demand variable used to calculate impact fees for parks in this chapter is population. Population is used here because the need for parks is almost universally defined in terms of the relationship between population and acres of parks. Impact fees calculated in this chapter for different categories of residential development vary depending on the estimated average population per unit for each unit-size category. The population per unit factors used to calculate park impact fees are from Table 2.1 in Chapter 2. Because population growth is driven by new residential development, the impact fees calculated in this chapter apply only to residential development. Existing Parks and Existing Level of Service The Open Space, Parks, and Conservation element of the City of San Leandro’s General Plan establishes a standard of five acres of improved park land per 1,000 residents. In this chapter, calculation of impact fees for park land acquisition and park improvements is based on the City’s existing level of service at the time of this study. In 2021, AB 602 added Section 66016.5 Chapter 3. Parks Land and Park Improvements