17621
. (a) Any resolution adopting or increasing a fee, charge,
dedication, or other requirement pursuant to Section 17620, for
application to residential, commercial, or industrial development,
shall be enacted in accordance with Chapter 5 (commencing with
Section 66000) of Division 1 of Title 7 of the Government Code. The
adoption, increase, or imposition of any fee, charge, dedication, or
other requirement pursuant to Section 17620 shall not be subject to
the California Environmental Quality Act, Division 13 (commencing
with Section 21000) of the Public Resources Code. The adoption of, or
increase in, the fee, charge, dedication, or other requirement shall
be effective no sooner than 60 days following the final action on
that adoption or increase, except as specified in subdivision (b).
(b) Without following the procedure otherwise required for
adopting or increasing a fee, charge, dedication, or other
requirement, the governing board of a school district may adopt an
urgency measure as an interim authorization for a fee, charge,
dedication, or other requirement, or increase in a fee, charge,
dedication, or other requirement, where necessary to respond to a
current and immediate threat to the public health, welfare, or
safety. The interim authorization shall require a four-fifths vote of
the governing board for adoption, and shall contain findings
describing the current and immediate threat to the public health,
welfare, or safety. The interim authorization shall have no force or
effect on and after a date 30 days after its adoption. After notice
and hearing in accordance with subdivision (a), the governing board,
upon a four-fifths vote of the board, may extend the interim
authority for an additional 30 days. Not more than two extensions may
be granted.
(c) Upon adopting or increasing a fee, charge, dedication, or
other requirement pursuant to subdivision (a) or (b), the school
district shall transmit a copy of the resolution to each city and
each county in which the district is situated, accompanied by all
relevant supporting documentation and a map clearly indicating the
boundaries of the area subject to the fee, charge, dedication, or
other requirement. The school district governing board shall specify,
pursuant to that notification, whether or not the collection of the
fee or other charge is subject to the restriction set forth in
subdivision (a) of Section 66007 of the Government Code.
(d) Any party on whom a fee, charge, dedication, or other
requirement has been directly imposed pursuant to Section 17620 may
protest the establishment or imposition of that fee, charge,
dedication, or other requirement in accordance with Section 66020 of
the Government Code, except that the procedures set forth in Section
66021 of the Government Code are deemed to apply, for this purpose,
to commercial and industrial development, as well as to residential
development.
(e) In the case of any commercial or industrial development, the
following procedures shall also apply:
(1) The school district governing board shall, in the course of
making the findings required under subdivisions (a) and (b) of
Section 66001 of the Government Code, do all of the following:
(A) Make the findings on either an individual project basis or on
the basis of categories of commercial or industrial development.
Those categories may include, but are not limited to, the following
uses: office, retail, transportation, communications and utilities,
light industrial, heavy industrial, research and development, and
warehouse.
(B) Conduct a study to determine the impact of the increased
number of employees anticipated to result from the commercial or
industrial development upon the cost of providing school facilities
within the district. For the purpose of making that determination,
the study shall utilize employee generation estimates that are
calculated on either an individual project or categorical basis, in
accordance with subparagraph (A). Those employee generation estimates
shall be based upon commercial and industrial factors within the
district or upon, in whole or in part, the applicable employee
generation estimates set forth in the January 1990 edition of "San
Diego Traffic Generators," a report of the San Diego Association of
Governments.
(C) The governing board shall take into account the results of
that study in making the findings described in this subdivision.
(2) In addition to any other requirement imposed by law, in the
case of any development project against which a fee, charge,
dedication, or other requirement is to be imposed pursuant to Section
53080 on the basis of a category of commercial or industrial
development, as described in paragraph (1), the governing board shall
provide a process that permits the party against whom the fee,
charge, dedication, or other requirement is to be imposed the
opportunity for a hearing to appeal that imposition. The grounds for
that appeal include, but are not limited to, the inaccuracy of
including the project within the category pursuant to which the fee,
charge, dedication, or other requirement is to be imposed, or that
the employee generation or pupil generation factors utilized under
the applicable category are inaccurate as applied to the project. The
party appealing the imposition of the fee, charge, dedication, or
other requirement shall bear the burden of establishing that the fee,
charge, dedication, or other requirement is improper.