15.78.030 Implementation of fee.
A. During the time the H.M.F. is in effect, prior to the approval of any urban development permit in the Metro Bakersfield Habitat Conservation Plan program area, the city will collect an H.M.F. With respect to use permits, the H.M.F. shall be paid prior to issuance of a grading or building permit, whichever comes first. If no grading or building permit is required for the use authorized by the use permit, the H.M.F. shall be paid prior to establishment of the authorized use.
B. An H.M.F. will not be required for the following:
1. Additions, remodels or reconstruction totaling not more than a fifty percent increase from the square footage of pre-existing development.
2. Mobile home replacement.
3. Oil and gas production and extraction, including accessory or incidental structures and improvements.
4. Commercial agricultural practices, uses and structures, including, but not limited to, tillage, cultivation, grading, ditching, storage, stacking, barns, equipment buildings and agricultural housing.
5. Development of any parcel for which the United States Fish and Wildlife Service and California Department of Fish and Game has approved other mitigation procedures through issuance of 2081 and 10(a)(l)(B) permits constituting full mitigation.
6. Local public projects less than ten acres in size undertaken for strictly public purposes and incidental to urban growth.
7. Demolition.
8. Those projects having already paid the interim HCP fee are exempt for the area covered by the previous fee payment.
C. For parcels less than two and one-half acres in size, the H.M.F. shall be calculated for the entire gross acreage of the parcel.
D. For those parcels two and one-half gross acres or larger, the H.M.F. calculation shall be on the associated disturbance but not less than two and one-half gross acres. However, if the applicant can adequately demonstrate to the city that a portion of his parcel shall not be disturbed by, but not limited to, grading, drainage, or storage, the H.M.F. will not be calculated for that portion of the parcel. (Ord. 4046 § 2, 2002)