DATE: November 19, 2025
TO: Honorable Mayor and City Councilmembers
FROM: Parks and Recreation Department
TITLE: CONSIDERATION OF ORDINANCES AMENDING CITY CODE CHAPTER 32B AND REPLACING CHAPTER 32D RELATED TO IMPACT FEES, AND CONSIDERATION OF A RESOLUTION ADOPTING A NEXUS STUDY, CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT PROGRAM, AND REVISED PARKS IMPACT FEE
RECOMMENDATION
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Staff recommends that the City Council introduce an ordinance amending Chapter 32B of the City Code; introduce an ordinance repealing and replacing Chapter 32D of the City Code; and adopt a resolution adopting a parks impact fee nexus study, capital improvement program, and revised parks impact fee.
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BACKGROUND AND ANALYSIS
In 1991, the City of Oceanside adopted a Parks Impact Fee to be levied on new residential development. The Parks Impact Fee is intended to ensure that new residential development projects provide a proportionate contribution towards development of parks and recreation facilities that serve the City's growing population. A fee nexus study establishes a legally defensible connection between new development and the public infrastructure costs it creates. The City collects the Parks Impact Fee when a certificate of occupancy is issued, and it is deposited in the Parks Fee Fund (598) that is managed by the Development Services Department. When the impact fee was first introduced it was set at $2,200 per dwelling unit, and the cost to acquire and develop park land was $200,000 per acre. The current fee is $4,431 per residential unit, which the City collects at a flat rate for all types of residential development. The City last increased the fee in 2015 and it is among the lowest fees in the region today.
On December 4, 2019, the City Council approved a contract with Economic & Planning Services, Inc. (EPS) to prepare a nexus study to update the Parks Impact Fee. The City and EPS met with stakeholders from the community as well as building industry representatives. City staff and E...
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