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Cotati adopts AB 602‑compliant impact fee update; council asks staff to refine hotel and affordable-housing options
Summary
Council adopted a nexus study and an updated fee schedule that moves most development impact fees to a square-foot basis and approved an ordinance to standardize inflation indexing and residential fee deferrals. Council discussed policy options to reduce or defer fees for lodging and affordable housing but took no policy vote; staff will return.
Cotati — The Cotati City Council on Aug. 11 adopted a comprehensive update of the city’s development impact fees, moving most fees to a square‑foot basis to comply with state law (AB 602) and the Mitigation Fee Act, and approved an ordinance to standardize inflation adjustments and enable residential fee deferrals to occupancy.
Carlos Villareal of Willdan Financial Services, the consultant who prepared the updated nexus study, presented the analysis and the recommended fee schedule. Villareal summarized the study’s conclusion: “The maximum justified fee for residential across all the fees that we are looking at is $25.54 per square foot.” He told the council the study used multiple allocation methodologies — planned facilities, buy‑in, existing standards and system planning — and projected citywide build‑out of roughly 2,100 dwelling units and 3,900 additional residents.
After public comment that included support from…
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