F. If the impact of the proposed development is not roughly proportional to the Necessary
Improvements and Improvement Costs, the impact of the proposed development is
roughly proportional to a specified dollar amount of, or proportion in terms of
percentages of the Improvement Costs for the public facility (“Proportionate
Contribution”). This finding shall explain with reasonable particularity the determination
of rough proportionality.
3.20.030 Qualified Public Facility. A qualified public facility is a public facility that is
subject to public facilities planning under the Comprehensive Plan; part of an existing public
facilities plan; and for which the City has a designated improvement fund, which fund may or
may not be currently funded.
3.20.040 Impact Study. The applicant shall provide adequate, reliable and quantifiable
information as to the extent the proposed development will impact the public facility. If the
information is not sufficient for the City to determine the impact proposed development will
have on a public facility, the applicant shall provide, at the applicant’s cost, an impact study
prepared by a registered professional engineer licensed in the State of Oregon with respect to
the proposed development and facility being studied, if a study has not already been prepared
by the City. The City Engineer has the authority to determine whether an impact study is
required and to set the scope of the study. The cost of the study, whether provided by the
applicant or by the City, shall be included in the Improvement Costs.
3.20.050 Alternative Findings Allowed. This Chapter does not preclude the hearing body
from otherwise finding that adequate public facilities exist or cannot exist (even if the
findings under Section 3.20.020 can be made) with respect to a public facility or that a street
or intersection is operating at an acceptable level of service or cannot so operate for other
reasons supported by the record. In other words, if other reasons and evidence in the record
support a finding of the existence of adequate public facilities, the applicant shall not be
required to make a Proportionate Contribution payment.
3.20.060 Conditions and Limits
. If the hearing body makes affirmative findings pursuant to
Section 3.20.020 above and the development proposal is approved, approval shall be
conditioned on the following:
A. The applicant’s written agreement to pay the Proportionate Contribution specified in
Section 3.20.020(F) above. The agreement shall provide that full payment, partial
payment or the posting of acceptable security must be made to the City on or before the
commencement of any work on and issuance of any permit for the subject property under
the development proposal. The condition shall also provide that if payment is not made
as provided in this Chapter, the City Council shall assess the Proportionate Contribution
against the subject property by resolution and shall enter the assessment resolution in the
docket of city liens and record the same in the Hood River County Assessor’s real
property records.
B. The determination under this Chapter of the applicant’s Proportionate Contribution to the
Necessary Improvements of the public facility shall be final and neither the applicant, nor
the applicant’s successors and assigns, shall be entitled to a refund or credit in the event
the total actual costs to the City of the Necessary Improvements are less than the
Improvement Costs. Similarly, the City shall not be entitled to seek additional
contribution from an applicant or the applicant’s successors and assigns if the total actual