AdministrationSet by city fee ordinanceCitation Public Resources Code s. 2705; City of Irvine CC Resolution No. 24-41

Strong Motion Instrumentation Program (SMIP) fee

Levied by State of California (Strong-Motion Instrumentation and Seismic Hazards Mapping Fund); collected by the City of Irvine on new development in Irvine. Authorized under the Public Resources Code s. 2705 (Strong-Motion Instrumentation Program). Collected at building permit.

Not priced for this house. This charge is real, adopted and collected, and it is left out of Irvine's figure for one reason: it is levied per $100,000 valuation, and a typical home does not fix that quantity. That is not the same as a zero. The fee is owed; what is missing is the number to multiply by, and inventing one would price this house with more confidence and less truth. Every published rate is in the table below.

The record

When it is paid

at building permit

“A city, county, and city and county shall collect a fee from each applicant for a building permit”

California Public Resources Code s. 2705(a) · source document ↗

Every published rate

Every rate below applies to single-family detached.

Rate	Basis	Effective	Amount
	per $100,000 valuation	15 Aug 2026	$13.00
the line this rate was read from “22. STRONG MOTION INSTRUMENTATION PROGRAM (S.M.I.P) FEE - State Mandated / A. Residential (for each $100,000 of valuation) $13.00 / Minimum Fee $0.55 / B. Commercial (for each $100,000 of valuation) $30.80 / Minimum Fee $0.55” City of Irvine, Fee Schedule: Community Development and Public Works Sustainability, Schedule II Building Safety Fees, item 22; page footer "Effective August 15, 2026 ... CC RESOLUTION NO. 24-41". Identical text in the standalone Schedule II PDF. · source document ↗

Source documents

–Adopting resolution not found
–Nexus study not found
–Annual fee report (AB 1600) not found
↗Published fee schedule
–Official boundary map not found

Not found means we couldn’t locate it, not that it doesn’t exist. Every linked document is archived here, so a dead link isn’t a dead citation.

Where this comes from

Facts with a quoted source: 1 of 10 record fields
How sure we are: High
Read on: 21 Sep 2026
Kind of document: Adopted fee schedule
Levying agency: CGS
Jurisdiction: Irvine

What “high” means, and what this fee rests on

High: We read this straight from the document that sets the fee: the city's ordinance, the council resolution, or the official fee schedule. This is the strongest kind of source, because the number and the rule come from the agency that charges it, in its own words.
Medium: We read this from an official document, but not the one that sets the fee. It might be a staff report, a study the fee was based on, or another agency's summary of it. These are usually right, but they can lag behind a change or describe a fee differently from the document that sets it. We also use medium when the agency's own documents disagree with each other.
Low: We could not find this in a current official document. It may come from an older version of the schedule, a secondary source, or from how the agency appears to apply the fee in practice. Treat it as a lead and check with the agency before relying on it.
Derived: Not read from a document at all. Filled in from the type of fee, such as which law authorizes it. Shown separately so it is never mistaken for a quotation.

Cite this page

Source: Development Fee Index, via DevFeeFinder · retrieved 21 Sep 2026

Development Fee Index, “Strong Motion Instrumentation Program (SMIP) fee, Irvine”. Figures retrieved 21 Sep 2026 from the documents listed above.

About these figures

Quoted, not summarized. Every amount and fact on this page is copied from the official document it links to. If we couldn’t find something in a document, we leave it blank instead of guessing.

Before any discounts. Some fees offer credits, waivers or phase-ins. They’re listed above but not subtracted, because whether you qualify depends on your project.

Check the date. Fees change. This page shows what was in force on the date at the top, with a link to the document that set it, so you can confirm the current amount yourself. How all of this is put together.

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