Visitacion Valley Impact Fees Survey Introduction The City of San Francisco is consulting residents on their priorities and ideas for how to allocate impact fee money from development projects on community improvements, give us your feedback by filling out this 5 minute survey! Some facts about the fees: The fees cannot be used for maintenance, operating costs or programs but for capital infrastructure improvements only. For example, sidewalk, street and signal improvements, benches, park equipment, expansion or construction of a recreational facility, etc. Impact fees trickle in over a long time period as construction happens and thus they are best used as gap funding for large projects or for smaller “shovel-ready” projects. Spending all the money on a single and/or the most expensive project (may not be sufficient for that project) takes away the leveraging point and therefore likely reduces overall income potential for the community to be spent on a broader set of community needs in a shorter time frame. The fees have to be spent within 250 feet of the boundary area (see map). Currently, there is a total of $506,000 in the streets and transportation category to be potentially programmed for specific, near-term improvements. This may include street signals, street bulbs, paving, crosswalks, street lighting, etc. $260,000 of that amount was previously set aside for undergrounding utilities on Leland Avenue (for Leland Avenue Streetscape Phase II) and would have to be “unlocked” through legislation. From 2016-2020 a total of about $12,066,000 is expected (not yet collected) to accrue and be allocated according to the following categories: 45% for Street and Transportation Improvements Category Budgeted FY 15: $506,000 FY 16-20: $5,243,000 Total (through 2025): $7,999,000 30% for Parks and Recreation / Community Facilities Category Budgeted FY 15: $0 FY 16-20: $3,498,900 Total (through 2025): $6,115,000 20% for Childcare Category Budgeted FY 15: $0 FY 16-20: $2,827,194 Total (through 2025): $3,927,000 Up to 5% for Administration Category Budgeted FY 15: $79,700 FY 16-20: $498,000 Total (through 2025): $785,600 TOTAL Budgeted FY 15 for all categories: $585,700 TOTAL Projected FY 16-20 for all categories: $12,066,000 TOTAL Projected (through 2025) for all categories: $20,154,000 By law, fees must be justified by a “nexus study” (to show the connection of new development to need for infrastructure) and stay below the maximum amount per square foot determined by that study, for each category. The percentages for Vis Valley were set according to the original list of community priorities. Changing the percentage categories would require legislation. The Transportation Obligation fee for Schlage Lock to be spent on transportation improvements surrounding the area will not begin to accrue until after 2020 since the first 3 million are waived because of in-kind transportation improvements provided by the project. The Visitacion Valley Public Library was built with the first $1.3 million of the Vis Valley fees. Note: The general cost estimates for each improvement listed in this survey are only intended to give a sense of magnitude of cost. These are not final figures as the improvements have not been fully designed. Next