Title
Resolution authorizing the Planning, Building and Development Director to sign annual agreements with affected school districts indemnifying the County for its confirmation of timely school impact fee payment to such districts.
Staff Summary
* Article 11 of the Unified Development Ordinance provides standards for the dedication of land or, in lieu of land, a cash contribution to schools within unincorporated Lake County when the Regional Superintendent of Schools determines there is a projected need for school lands to accommodate additional student population generated from approved subdivisions.
* For the majority of unincorporated subdivisions requiring the payment of school contributions, developers opt out of the County's Unified Development Ordinance-based formula and instead enter into private agreements for school contributions with the affected school districts.
* Cash contributions to the school district can either be collected by the school district prior to final plat approval, or they can be delayed until a lot is developed after the final plat is approved and recorded.
* For Private Agreement-Based School Contributions, the County will assist a school district in assuring cash contributions are paid, provided the school district agrees to indemnify the County from all liability for enforcing the collection of the impact fee. The indemnification agreement is a form agreement, set forth in Appendix P of the UDO, signed by both the County and the school district and is renewed annually for those school districts that wish to participate in the indemnification process. As Article 11 provides a form agreement, signing of such on behalf of the County is essentially a ministerial process.
* This action would authorize the Planning, Building and Development Director to carry out this routine, ministerial action.
Body
WHEREAS, the Lake County Board adopted the Unified Development Ordinance on April 11, 2000, containing Article 2 - ...
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