§ 18.04.010. Fee payment.

(a)

The applicant for the permit or approval shall pay to the county department of planning and building any and all public facilities fees imposed by resolution of the board of supervisors. Permits for remodels, additions, or alterations to existing residences that will add additional square footage for residential purposes will be required to pay the fire component of the public facilities fee for the additional square footage. Fees shall be paid by one of the following methods:

(1)

Prior to the issuance of any building permit, or prior to the granting of any earlier approval for any development project if the collection of the fees at such earlier time is permitted by law; or

(2)

Deferred fees. Prior to the final building inspection consistent with the following:

a.

Prior to the issuance of the building permit the applicant shall enter into an agreement in a form approved by county counsel, assuring that all fees will be paid prior to final inspection.

b.

Prior to issuance of the building permit, a deposit shall be collected, in the amount of twenty percent of the total amount of public facilities fees owed as of the date of building permit issuance based on the fees currently in effect, together with the administrative fee set in the adopted fee schedule.

c.

Prior to final inspection, all public facilities fees shall be paid in full, minus the amount paid as a deposit prior to permit issuance pursuant to Section 18.04.010a(2)(b). The amount of the total deferred fees due and owed prior to final inspection shall be calculated according to the fees in effect at the time the deferred fees are paid in full.

d.

Eligibility. The applicant must comply with the following provisions to be eligible for deferral of public facilities fees:

1.

All conditions of approval of the subject project that are applicable at the time of building permit issuance shall have been met.

2.

The applicant shall have no unpaid balances due to the county for the projects or any other project or purpose.

3.

All payment of taxes and assessments on the subject property shall be current.

4.

No violations of County Code may be present on the subject property, except where the building permit is being obtained to correct the violation.

(b)

The amount of the fees shall be determined by the schedule of fees in effect on the date the vesting tentative map or vesting parcel map for a development project is approved, or, if there is no such vesting map, on the date a permit is issued or an approval is granted for a development project, or in accordance with a fee deferral agreement described in Section 18.04.010(a)(2).

(c)

When an application is made for a new building permit following the expiration of a previously issued building permit for a development project for which fees were paid, another fee payment shall not be required, unless the schedule of fees has been amended during the interim, or if there is a balance due in the case where the fee was deferred to final inspection, and in these events, the appropriate increase or decrease in the fees shall be applied.

(d)

In the event that subsequent development occurs with respect to a development project for which fees have been paid, additional fees shall be required and paid but only for such additional square footage of the development project that was not included in computing the prior fee.

(e)

When fees are paid for a development project and that development project is subsequently reduced so that it becomes entitled to a lower fee, the county shall issue a partial refund of the fees so paid.

(f)

When fees are paid for a development project and the development project is subsequently abandoned without any further action beyond the obtaining of a permit or an approval, the payor shall be entitled to a refund of the fees paid, less a portion of the fees sufficient to cover the costs of collection, accounting for and administration of the fees so paid.

(g)

When application is made for a new building permit where the Parkland fees (Quimby) have been paid at the time of recordation of the subdivision, the land portion of the park component of the public facility fee shall not be collected at the time of the building permit. The development portion of the park component of the public facility fee shall be collected.

(Ord. 3085 §§ 2, 3, 2006; Ord. 2737 § 2, 1995; Ord. 2628 § 1, 1993; Ord. 2519 § 1 (part), 1991)

(Ord. No. 3172, § 1, 12-9-08; Ord. No. 3215, § 1, 7-26-11; Ord. No. 3373, § 1, 8-21-18)