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CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF PLEASANTON ALAMEDA COUNTY, CALIFORNIA RESOLUTION NO. 06-011 RESOLUTION AMENDING MASTER FEE RESOLUTION NO. 92-100 TO ADD THE VINEYARD A VENUE AGRICULTURAL MITIGATION FEE WHEREAS, on May 19,1992, the City Council adopted Resolution No. 92-100 that established a new Master Fee Schedule; and WHEREAS, the City adopted the Vineyard Avenue Corridor Specific Plan ("Specific Plan") on June 1,1999; and WHEREAS, pursuant to the Specific Plan, certain property owners are required to pay an agricultural mitigation fee to the City prior to their properties' development to ensure that development in the Vineyard Avenue Corridor compensates for the loss of cultivable or potentially cultivable soils through a payment to fund the Tri- Valley Conservancy's conservation efforts; and WHEREAS, the Specific Plan states that the amount of the agricultural mitigation fee is based on a "one-to-one ratio between the cost per acre for agricultural easements to the Trust [Tri- Valley Conservancy] and the net acreage of potentially cultivable soils less than 25 percent in slope lost to development"; and WHEREAS, the Tri-Valley Conservancy has provided the City with an appraisal that shows that the value of an agricultural conservation easement is $25,000 per acre. WHEREAS, in addition to the cost of the easement, City staff expends time to review, collect and distribute the fee, calculated at a flat amount of $645; NOW, THEREFORE, THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF PLEASANTON RESOLVES AS FOLLOWS: Section 1: The City Council amends the Master Fee Resolution No. 92-100 by revising Section IX, Development Impact Fees to include the following subsection (I): I. Vineyard A venue Agricultural Mitigation Fee applicable to those properties identified in the Vineyard Avenue Corridor Specific Plan (Lots 18-28,32 and 33) is the sum of: