Transportation Uniform Mitigation Fee (Coachella Valley)

“Section 2. PURPOSE. The purpose of this ordinance is to authorize the County's participation in the TUMF Program, which establishes and sets forth policies, regulations, and authorized uses of fees collected relating to the funding for the construction of improvements and facilities to enlarge the capacity of the Regional System, as necessary to address the direct and cumulative environmental effects generated by new development projects described and defined herein. The purpose of the TUMF is to fund those certain improvements to the Regional System as identified in the 2018 Nexus Study.”

“c. The TUMF shall be solely used toward funding the engineering, construction, and purchasing of right-of-way for these Regional System projects and any other purpose consistent with this ordinance. The fee may not be used for system maintenance.”

“c. "Coachella Valley". The TUMF collection boundary area as described by the Coachella Valley Association of Governments Transportation Uniform Mitigation Fee Handbook, as may be amended from time to time.”

1989-06-27 (County adoption; effective 1989-08-26)

“Adopted: 673 Item 3.12a of 06/27/1989 (Eff: 08/26/1989) Amended: 673.1 Item 16.4 of 05/02/2006 (Eff: 07/01/2006) / 673.2 Item 16.2 of 10/31/2006 (Eff: 12/30/2006) / 673.3 Item 3.65 of 03/16/2010 (Eff: 05/14/2010) / 673.4 Item 19.3 of 08/27/2019 (Eff: 10/25/2019) / 673.5 Item 19.2 of 11/02/2021 (Eff: 12/31/2021) / 673.6 Item 19.2 11/01/2022 (Eff: 12/30/2022)”

Ordinance No. 673

“Adopted: 673 Item 3.12a of 06/27/1989 (Eff: 08/26/1989) Amended: 673.1 Item 16.4 of 05/02/2006 (Eff: 07/01/2006) / 673.2 Item 16.2 of 10/31/2006 (Eff: 12/30/2006) / 673.3 Item 3.65 of 03/16/2010 (Eff: 05/14/2010) / 673.4 Item 19.3 of 08/27/2019 (Eff: 10/25/2019) / 673.5 Item 19.2 of 11/02/2021 (Eff: 12/31/2021) / 673.6 Item 19.2 11/01/2022 (Eff: 12/30/2022)”

at building permit

“Mitigation fees shall be imposed and collected by the applicable jurisdiction at building permit issuance and shall be transmitted to CVAG by the 20th day of the month following the month in which the fees were collected. Transmitted funds shall be placed in the Coachella Valley Transportation Mitigation Trust Fund.”

County of Riverside (Transportation and Land Management Agency), remitted to CVAG

“f. TUMF shall be imposed and collected by the County and shall be transmitted to CVAG to be placed in the Coachella Valley Transportation Mitigation Trust Fund ("Fund"). All interest or other earnings of the Fund shall be credited to the Fund.”

“Section 8. EXEMPTIONS. The following Developments are exempted from payment of the fee required by this ordinance: a. Low and Lower-Income Residential Housing. […] b. The reconstruction of any building so long as the reconstructed building both continues a use of the same category as the prior use and generates the same or fewer trips as the original building and reconstruction commences within one (1) year from destruction of the building. c. Employee Housing.”

“Section 9. CREDITS. a. Where a developer improves those regional streets identified in Section 11 of this ordinance beyond the requirements established in Section 9(b), the developer shall receive a credit against the TUMF. To receive a credit, the developer shall obtain in advance an agreement with CVAG pursuant to CVAG's rules and regulations. That credit shall be an amount equal to the actual engineering and construction costs incurred at the time of the development to the extent that CVAG has included those costs in its estimated cost of constructing the regional system.”

“a. The following TUMF schedule is effective through December 31, 2022: […] Single-Family Detached $2,358/dwelling unit […] The following TUMF schedule is effective beginning on January 1, 2023: […] Single-Family Detached $2,550/dwelling unit”