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The Fee Policy is established to assist all departments in determining how any specific fee should be established, to help assure equitable treatment of all citizens and to structure the maintenance of fees at a current cost level. Furthermore, the Fee Policy establishes categories of services for which the City desires to collect such fees and upon which the level of cost recovery is determined. A. GENERAL POLICY It is the general policy of the City of Pleasanton to recover its costs of service from the individuals and/or groups served to the extent that individual members of the public are benefiting from specific City facilities or personnel in a way different from that enjoyed by all citizens. To the extent that the City organizes some of its activities into enterprise funds, such activities should recover all of their costs even if they benefit essentially all of the citizens. B. CATEGORIES OF SERVICE From a policy standpoint, the Council expects City services to be placed in one of six categories before a fee is established or considered for any specific service: 1. Development which impacts municipal infrastructure costs. When additional housing or commercial units are being built, it is the City's policy to charge them for the costs of the additional roadways, road widening(s), traffic control devices, water/sewer lines or processing capacity, and other related capital costs the City must spend to support the new development and the impacts it creates. The policy of the City Council is that these fees will include all cost expended or expected to be expended by the City in creating or performing these support activities, either in cash or in such in-kind as may be approved by the City Manager, as provided by State legislation. 2. Fees or charges designed to discourage improper behavior. This would include traffic fines, parking enforcement, vandalism repair, theft or willful destruction of City property, building code infractions, etc. There is no need for these charges to be constrained by the cost of the enforcement activity. While they should at least meet this cost, they will generally be expected to be more than the cost of enforcement to discourage repeat offenses. 3. Services designed to control activities which could be harmful to others. This includes fire inspection fees, many types of police permits, building inspections, etc. In these cases, the individual has probably done nothing wrong, but is engaged in an activity which could be harmful to others if conducted incorrectly. These fees should be set at full 217