Walker v. City of San Clemente

Opinion

ARONSON, J.

The Mitigation Fee Act (Gov. Code, § 66000 et seq.; Act) 1 authorizes a local agency to impose fees on specific development projects to defray the cost of new or additional public facilities that are needed to serve those developments. The Act establishes a variety of requirements to ensure local agencies timely use these fees to pay for public facilities that serve those very developments rather than divert the fees for general revenue purposes. For example, when establishing a development fee, a local agency must identify both how it will use the fee and the relationship…