PCA approves staff recommendation to raise PCCP development and habitat fees for FY 2025–26

The Placer Conservation Authority voted March 12 to accept staff's recommendation for the annual inflation adjustment to Placer County Conservation Program development fees for fiscal year 2025–26 and to forward the recommendation to the City of Lincoln and Placer County for consideration and adoption by those legislative bodies.

Senior Conservation Planner Sadie Caldas told the board the fee adjustments are made annually under the PCCP plan to keep revenues aligned with inflation and plan costs. The recommended adjustment is a 1.19% increase to the land conversion fee and the open space and fire hazard management fee; the Special Habitat Fee Schedule would increase by 2.81%. Caldas said the land conversion and open-space adjustments use a land value index plus a consumer price index, while special habitat fees use only the consumer price index, which explains the different percentage changes.

The board accepted the recommendation and staff will forward it to the City of Lincoln and Placer County for potential adoption. Caldas said this would be the fifth annual adjustment to PCCP development fees.

The board determined the action was not a project under CEQA as read into the record during the meeting. The motion to accept staff's recommendation passed on a voice vote with no recorded opposition or abstentions.