DATE: April 10, 2018
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RESOLUTION RESUMING COLLECTION OF PREVIOUSLY ADOPTED USER FEE TO BE COLLECTED BY TRANSPORTATION VENDORS DOING BUSINESS ON TIDELANDS
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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY:
Section 57.5 of the San Diego Unified Port District Port Act ("Port Act"), "Transportation Vendor Conducting Business on Tidelands; Parking Structure Financing Fee; Conditions" authorizes the District to impose a transaction fee to be collected by transportation vendors (rental car companies) doing business on tidelands (including at San Diego International Airport (Airport)) and paid by car renters for the purposes of financing and/or construction of a parking structure intended principally to serve a convention center on District tidelands (Attachment A). In December 1998, the Board adopted Ordinance 2030 establishing such a rental car fee in the amount of $3.50 per rental car transaction effective January 15, 1999 (Attachment B). Between 1999 and 2006, collected fees paid for 100% of the construction of the parking facility built adjacent to the San Diego Convention Center (SDCC).
The District's Chula Vista Bayfront project represents one of the last truly significant large-scale waterfront development opportunities in Southern California. It seeks to transform a largely vacant and underutilized industrial landscape into a thriving destination including convention center facilities, a resort hotel, marinas, restaurants, and public spaces on the Chula Vista waterfront. A significant aspect of the Chula Vista Bayfront is the construction of an approximately 275,000 square foot convention center, including a 1,600-space parking garage primarily intended to serve the convention center.
As the District did with the SDCC parking garage in 1999-2006, staff recommends the District resume collection of the previously adopted user fee in order to fund the needed parking facilities adjacent to the planned Chula Vista Bayfront convention center. The resumed collecti...
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