Downtown Expansion Plan Development Impact Fee and Nexus Study

The City of Santa Cruz is seeking a consultant to prepare a Nexus Study for development impact fees in compliance with the Mitigation Fee Act. The study will provide documentation to demonstrate the nexus between the Downtown Plan Expansion developments and their impact on city infrastructure, and to justify the appropriate rates for a new impact fee. The selected consultant will review and validate the buildout assumptions and infrastructure cost estimates for the Downtown Plan Expansion area, and develop a fee schedule for each category of development project. The consultant will also prepare a Nexus Study to document the required bases for the City to impose development impact fees on new development projects within the Downtown Plan Expansion area. • The Nexus Study will include a description of the overall methodology, supporting justification, and analysis and calculations to establish the connection between the impacts from new developments on the proposed public facilities and the benefits received by new developments from the proposed public facilities. • The study will quantify the proportional share of costs attributable to each category of new development project for each category of public facilities. • The consultant will develop a fee schedule for each category of development project based on the nexus and proportionality analysis. • The consultant will prepare summaries of the proposed impact fee to inform the public regarding the proposed fees.