Comments on Draft EIR for County’s CIP and TIM Fee Update due on July 5, 2016
Further Progress on CIP/TIM Fee Update on Hold
Claudia Wade
530-621-5977
2016-06-22
Community Development Agency
Comments on the Draft Environmental Impact Report (DEIR) for
El Dorado County’s Capital Improvement Program (CIP) and Traffic Impact
Mitigation (TIM) Fee Update are due on July 5, 2016 as described in the Notice
of Availability. Further progress on the
CIP and TIM Fee Update is on hold until questions raised by Measure E are
resolved.
The County initiated the CIP and TIM Fee Update in 2015 as
required by the County’s General Plan and state law. Draft information presented to the Board of
Supervisors and the public indicated the Update would lead to significant cost
savings and reduced TIM Fees. The County
was tentatively scheduled to adopt the updated CIP and TIM Fee programs in
August 2016.
According to the Unofficial Election Night Final Report prepared
by the Elections Department for the June 7, 2016 election, Measure E received
51.81% affirmative votes. The Elections
Department is currently processing vote by mail ballots and provisional ballots
and performing a manual tally of the ballots in accordance with its statutory
duties. Upon completion of those activities, the Elections Official will
prepare a certified statement of the results of the election for submission to
the Board of Supervisors within thirty days of the election. Assuming that the final tally indicates that
Measure E received a majority vote, it would be considered adopted when the
vote is declared by the Board of Supervisors and it will become effective ten
days thereafter, in accordance with Elections Code section 9122.
As previously noted in the report prepared by the County in
2014 pursuant to Elections Code 9111, which is available on the County’s
webpage, there are numerous questions raised by Measure E that need to be
resolved before resuming the CIP and TIM Fee Update. County staff is engaged in that effort and
has made it a top priority.
At this time, there is no estimate as to when the CIP and
TIM Fee Update will resume or if Measure E will require changes to the project
or associated environmental analysis. The
current TIM Fee rates will remain in place until the CIP and TIM Fee Update is
adopted.