Council introduces ordinance cutting some development impact fees; staff directed to report on recent payments

The Lompoc City Council on Tuesday introduced an ordinance that revises the city’s development impact fee schedule after a review and public comment, and it directed staff to prepare a follow‑up analysis of recent fee payments.

City Attorney (on behalf of staff) said the draft ordinance updates last‑decade rules, adds an administrative appeal process and was changed from a resolution to an ordinance so that the fee schedule would be adopted via ordinance rather than a less‑durable resolution. “The first one is this has been changed from a resolution to an ordinance,” the City Attorney told the council.

The changes substantially reduce some impact fees for new residential development when compared with the prior schedule shown in the earlier Nexus…