School-related fees paid by developers on new residential and commercial construction in the 40-square-mile Placentia-Yorba Linda Unified School District will increase soon after the start of the new fiscal year that begins July 1.<\/p>\n
Fees on new residential development will jump 54.6% from $3.48 per-square-foot to $5.38 per-square-foot. Fees on new commercial-industrial development will jump 55.4% from 56 cents per-square-foot to 87 cents per-square-foot. Fees for new rental self-storage facilities will be 9 cents per-square-foot.<\/p>\n
The new fees \u2014 the maximum allowed under state law \u2014 were approved on a 5-0 vote of the district\u2019s trustees at a May 12 meeting and were based on findings presented in a 39-page report from a district-hired consultant, SchoolWorks, Inc., based in Granite Bay.<\/p>\n
An estimated 600 new residential units will be built in the next five years within the district\u2019s boundaries, which includes property in nearly all of Placentia and Yorba Linda and parts of Fullerton, Brea and Anaheim.<\/p>\n
State law allows school districts \u201cto assess fees on new residential and commercial construction within their respective boundaries \u2026 without special city or county approval,\u201d according to the SchoolWorks report.<\/p>\n
The fees can be used to build new schools \u201cnecessitated by the impact of residential and commercial development activity,\u201d the report stated. Also, the fees can be used \u201cto fund the reconstruction of school facilities to accommodate students generated from new development projects.\u201d<\/p>\n
Fees are collected prior to the issuance of a building permit by the city or county.<\/p>\n
For the current school year, enrollment stands at 22,295 on the district\u2019s 34 campuses: 11,020 in transitional kindergarten through sixth grade; 3,518 in seventh and eighth grades; and 7,757 in ninth through 12th grades.<\/p>\n
The projected 600-unit residential construction is expected to generate an additional 242 students over the next five years, including 120 elementary, 38 middle and 84 high school students, based on a formula estimating 0.4032 students per new residential unit.<\/p>\n
The district currently has a classroom capacity for 26,949 students, 4,654 more than this year\u2019s 22,295-student enrollment, \u201cassuming the existing facilities remain in sufficient condition to maintain existing levels of service,\u201d the report noted.<\/p>\n
The projected cost for school facilities needed due to new development is $9.1 million, with the new development fees anticipated to bring in $6.2 million for the next five years.<\/p>\n
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Trustees moved forward on the five-year \u201cStrategic Visioning and Planning Process\u201d described in my May 7 column by hiring Differentiated Solutions Consulting on a one-year contract for $136,000 to $178,000 to support planning, implementation and monitoring, including action planning this summer, implementation in the coming school year and sustainability transition next June.<\/p>\n
Jim Drummond is a longtime Yorba Linda resident. He regularly gives his take on local issues. Send e-mail to jimdrummond@hotmail.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"School-related fees paid by developers on new residential and commercial construction in the 40-square-mile Placentia-Yorba Linda Unified School…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":326427,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[163,165,164,7,12964,611,77,7537],"class_list":["post-326426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-anaheim","tag-anaheim","tag-anaheim-headlines","tag-anaheim-news","tag-california","tag-jim-drummond","tag-orange-county","tag-uncategorized","tag-yorba-linda"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326426","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=326426"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326426\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/326427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=326426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=326426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=326426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}