{"id":3543,"date":"2022-11-17T19:34:28","date_gmt":"2022-11-18T02:34:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.inedc.com\/22\/?p=3543"},"modified":"2022-11-17T19:34:28","modified_gmt":"2022-11-18T02:34:28","slug":"3543","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.inedc.com\/22\/11\/17\/3543\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<pre>Allen Matkins<\/pre>\n<p>PLACERVILLE, California (InEDC) Nov 17, 2022 \u2014 California\u2019s Court of Appeal for the Third District recently held that El Dorado County\u2019s imposition of a Traffic Impact Mitigation Fee (TIM) as a condition of approval for a residential building permit was valid under the California Mitigation Fee Act and did not violate the takings clause of the Fifth Amendment. &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>This case also confirms that legislatively-adopted impact fees imposed as a condition of approval for a land-use permit are subject to the Mitigation Fee Act\u2019s \u201creasonable relationship\u201d requirement, which requires the local agency to demonstrate that there is a reasonable relationship, in both intended use and amount, between a project\u2019s impact and the fee imposed. By contrast, development fees imposed on an ad-hoc, individual, discretionary basis are subject to heightened judicial scrutiny under the Nollan\/Dolan test discussed below.<\/p>\n<p>Here, the County adopted the TIM to fund street construction to mitigate traffic impacts from new development. Consequently, the court reviewed the TIM under the \u201creasonable relationship\u201d requirement after rejecting petitioner\u2019s argument that heightened scrutiny should apply. The court determined that the County had established a reasonable relationship between the TIM\u2019s amount and the residential project\u2019s impacts &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong>IMPLICATIONS<\/strong><br \/>\nThis case continues the line of cases distinguishing between general, legislatively-adopted impact fees and individualized, project-specific impact fees, and reiterates that when reviewing an agency\u2019s application of legislatively-adopted fees to a project, courts are deferential to agencies and typically uphold an agency\u2019s action unless it was \u201carbitrary, capricious or entirely lacking in evidentiary support.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.allenmatkins.com\/real-ideas\/court-holds-that-countys-traffic-mitigation-fee-was-valid-under-the-california-mitigation-fee-act-and-did-not-violate-the-takings-clause-of-the-fifth-amendment.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">READ MORE @ Koontz &amp; Sheetz<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;County adopted the TIM to fund street construction to mitigate traffic impacts from new development. Consequently, the court reviewed the TIM under the &#8216;reasonable relationship&#8217; requirement after rejecting petitioner\u2019s argument that heightened scrutiny should apply.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3544,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.inedc.com\/22\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3543"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.inedc.com\/22\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.inedc.com\/22\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.inedc.com\/22\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.inedc.com\/22\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3543"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.inedc.com\/22\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3543\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3545,"href":"http:\/\/www.inedc.com\/22\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3543\/revisions\/3545"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.inedc.com\/22\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.inedc.com\/22\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.inedc.com\/22\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.inedc.com\/22\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}