Development Services

Land Development

There are several ways that you can defer the payment of development impact fees in the City of Turlock. The City of Turlock has developed three programs of fee deferrals, outlined below. In addition, the City of Turlock approved participation in the Statewide Community Infrastructure Program (SCIP) which allows you to pay development impact fees over a longer period of time by participating in a statewide program.

City of Turlock Fee Deferral Programs

The City Council has adopted three fee deferral programs for commercial and industrial development to help reduce the development community’s up front costs by not requiring full payment of specific development impact fees at building permit issuance. The program will be in place for a 24-month period as we work though this economic downturn. The fee deferral options are listed below:

1. Deferred to Occupancy (D.T.O.)
   Fees can be deferred to occupancy; or
   
   
2. 20% Plan
   Fees can be paid over 4 years with 20% due at building permit issuance and the remaining 80% paid over the next 4 years (20% per year). The deferred amount will be subject to Engineering News Record Index changes as well as compounded interest. Interest would be set by averaging the last 4 years of interest earned by the City as published by the State Controllers Office Local Agency Investment Fund; or
   
   
3. 10-30% Plan
   Fees can be paid over 5 years with 0% due at building permit issuance and the remaining 100% paid over the next 5 years (10% year 1, 15% year 2, 20% year 3, 25% year 4 and 30% year 5). The deferred amount will be subject to Engineering News Record Index changes as well as compounded interest. Interest would be set by averaging the last 5 years of interest earned by the City as published by the State Controllers Office Local Agency Investment Fund.
   

Statewide Community Infrastructure Program (SCIP)

The City Council has also approved the City of Turlock participation in the SCIP program. This allows property owners who choose to participate in the program to have the selected public capital improvements and the development impact fees owed to the City be financed by the issuance of tax-exempt bonds by California Statewide Communities Development Authority (CSCDA). CSCDA is a joint powers authority sponsored by the League of California Cities and the California State Association of Counties.

CSCDA will impose a special assessment on the owner’s property to repay the portion of the bonds issued to finance the fees paid with respect to the property. This is a low-cost, long-term tax-exempt financing of development fees, freeing up capital for other purposes. The property owner can choose to pay off the special assessments at any time. For more information on the program contact James Hamill at (925) 933-9229 ext. 216 or Terrence Murphy at (925) 933-9229 ext. 223 with CSCDA or visit their website at http://www.cacommunities.org.