Residential Impact Fees in California: Current Practices and Policy Considerations to Improve Implementation of Fees Governed by the Mitigation Fee Act

In this report, the Terner Center for Housing Innovation at UC Berkeley analyzes the use of residential “impact fees”—development fees regulated by the Mitigation Fee Act—to inform policymakers on the trade-offs of policies intended to improve housing supply and affordability. This report focuses narrowly on impact fees and reviews of policy approaches to reduce Mitigation Fee Act fees on residential development, as stipulated by the Legislature in AB 879 (Grayson, 2017). However, impact fees exist within a much wider ecosystem of fees and exactions charged to new development, thus some of the findings and implications of this analysis could apply to that broader ecosystem.

• Record URL:
  http://ternercenter.berkeley.edu/uploads/Residential_Impact_Fees_in_California_August_2019.pdf
• Record URL:
  https://merritt.cdlib.org/d/ark%253A%252F13030%252Fm50p63b8/1/producer%252FResidential_Impact_Fees_in_California_August_2019.pdf
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• Corporate Authors:

  University of California, Berkeley

  Terner Center for Housing Innovation
  2150 Kittredge Street, Suite 3A
  Berkeley, CA  United States 

  California Department of Housing and Community Development

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• Authors:
  • Raetz, Hayley
  • Garcia, David
  • Decker, Nathaniel
  • Kneebone, Elizabeth
  • Reid, Carolina
  • Galante, Carol
• Publication Date: 2019-8-5

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Digital/other
• Features: Figures; Tables;
• Pagination: 84p

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Economic analysis; Housing; Impact fees; Infrastructure; Local government agencies; Policy analysis; Real estate development
• Geographic Terms: California
• Subject Areas: Economics; Planning and Forecasting; Policy; Transportation (General);

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01718655
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: UC Berkeley Transportation Library
• Files: BTRIS, TRIS
• Created Date: Oct 1 2019 12:21PM