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For the Transportation Development Impact Fee (TDIF) study, Fehr& Peers will undertake the following efforts: o Obtain a complete set of model files for the City of Pleasanton model, do a basic reasonableness check on the land use and roadway network inputs for both the base year and future year, and confirm the input assumptions with City staff. This review should consider the land use projections recently developed by the City of Dublin, particularly for those areas near the boundary between the two cities, to ensure that the land use inputs seem reasonable. (Note that the City of Pleasanton is in the early stages of updating the local travel model. We plan to use the most recent version of the model available at the time of this TDIF study.) o Obtain available traffic count data from the City, from recent planning and transportation studies undertaken in the vicinity, and from other relevant sources (such as Caltrans). o Review the existing Traffic Development Fee program established in 1998, as well as the fee program update study conducted in 2010 that was never adopted. We will review the methodology from the 2010 study and provide our thoughts on its applicability for this current situation. o Recommend an approach for establishing the nexus between new development in Pleasanton and the need for the transportation capital improvements, and discuss with the City and consultant team. Task 3: Public Facilities and Cost Estimates The goal of this task will be to define the list of facilities and associated costs that will be covered in whole or in part by the fee program. As a starting point, the EPS Team will review the list of facilities that underlies the current fee program and what items need to be revised, removed, or added to orient the facility list to serve future growth. Input from City Department staff on long-term capital goals, service standards, and feedback on the relevance of the facilities included in the current fee program will be solicited through a combination of structured questionnaires and interviews. While the impact fee is expected to include parkland, open space, and trails, public facilities (including land and buildings), transportation (streets, sidewalks, and bicycle paths), water and sewer facilities, and affordable housing, other appropriate capital needs will be considered. Given EPS experience with similar communities, we understand the wide range of public facilities that can be included(including, for example a General Plan Update fee, Technology Fee, childcare fee, and others). Once a list of required infrastructure and community facilities is compiled and vetted, the EPS team will develop planning-level cost estimates using unit costs based on standard industry sources and City staff experience on local facility costs. BKF Engineers will also review these estimates as needed, focusing on the water and sewer infrastructure cost estimates, building on the recently completed studies, as appropriate. It is assumed that the cost for preparing the Impact Fee program will be recovered as an administrative factor in the nexus analysis. 71Page