Land use: development fees.

The Mitigation Fee Act requires a local agency, in establishing, increasing, or imposing a fee as a condition of approval of a development project, to identify the purpose of the fee and the use to which it is to be put. If the use is financing a public improvement, the improvement is required to be publicly identified, as well as the amount of the expenditures on each improvement, within 180 days after the last day of each fiscal year. This bill, if a local agency fails to comply with the requirements described above for a 2nd consecutive year, would prohibit a local agency from collecting established fees, and from imposing new fees, until compliance with the requirements described above have been met. The bill would prohibit a local agency from threatening or implementing a moratorium on construction because of these fee prohibitions and would require the local agency to continue to approve development projects without the collection or imposition of fees.