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ORDINANCE NO. 92-56
(AMENDING CHILD CARE FACILITIES ORDINANCE)
The Contra Costa County Board of Supervisors ordains as follows (omitting the parenthetical
footnotes from the official text of the enacted or amended provisions of the County
Ordinance Code):
SECTION I. SUMMARY. This ordinance amends Chapter 82-22 of the County Ordinance
Code to modify the exemption for certain residential developments.
SECTION II. FINDINGS.
(a) The Board finds that there is an inadequate number of child care facilities
available in most, if not all, unincorporated communities in the County. Therefore, the
Board finds that it is appropriate for all residential developers to mitigate the effects of their
developments on the community in terms of child care needs.
(b) Because of the relatively high cost of an assessment study for developments of 29
or fewer units, the imposition of a flat fee is a more appropriate method of mitigating the
effects of a development on the need for.child care in such developments.
SECTION III. Section 82-22.204 of the County Ordinance Code is amended to read:
82-22.204 Administration. The community development department shall be
responsible to ensure the coordination of child care needs assessment and the
provision of information concerning child care, to assist in the preparation of child
care programs (where appropriate), and to coordinate the development of a child care
program within county government. As part of its responsibilities under this chapter,
the department shall verify the need for child care facilities and programs in each
unincorporated community in the county every three years.
(Ords. 92-56 § 3, 88-1 § 3.)
SECTION IV. Subsection (d) is added to section 82-22.806 of the County Ordinance Code
to read:
(d) The applicant or developer of a residential development with between one
and twenty-nine units, inclusive, shall pay a fee, as established by the board in
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accordance with applicable law, toward child care facility needs in lieu of f
undertaldng the child care survey required in this section. Such fee shall be
reserved by the county to assist in meeting child care facility needs in the
community in which such development is located.
(Ords. 92-56 § 4, 88-1 § 2.)
SECTION V. Subsection (b) of section 82-22.808 of the County Ordinance Code is
amended to read:
(b) The applicant or developer of a residential project of thirty or more units
shall provide a child care facility on-site or off-site consistent with the needs
assessment and response program required by this chapter or shall demonstrate that
the child care needs of the project are mitigated through the use of existing facilities.
The new facility constructed by the developer for the purposes of satisfying the
requirement of this chapter shall be available on an ongoing basis to satisfy the public
need for not fewer than twenty-five years unless approved for a change of use by the
board on a recommendation by the zoning administrator through a public hearing
process.
(Ords. 92-56 § 5, 88-1 § 3.)
SECTION VI. Subsection (9) of section 82-22.1002 of the County Ordinance Code is
deleted, and subsection (10) is renumbered.as subsection (9).
(Ords. 92-56 § 6, 88-1 §3.)
SECTION VII. EFFECTIVE DATE. This ordinance becomes effective 30 days after
passage, and within 15 days of passage shall be published once with the names of the
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• supervisors voting for and against it in the Contra Costa Times ,
a newspaper published in this County.
PASSED ON August 11, 1992 by the following vote:
AYES: Supervisors Powers, Fanden, Schroder, Torlakson, McPeak
NOES: None
ABSENT: None
ABSTAIN: None
ATTEST: PHIL, BATCHELOR, Clerk
of the Board of Supervisors Board Chair
and County Administrator
B e SEAL
Y [SEAL]
Deputy
(SBM, 8-3-92)
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