§ 82-22.806. Child care survey.

(a)

An application for a land use entitlement shall include a survey or assessment of the estimated child care needs caused by the proposed project, together with a response program showing how the child care needs resulting from the project are to be mitigated within Contra Costa County. The response program to mitigate the child care needs of the project shall include information on the location and capacity of existing or proposed child care facilities and how these will be used, established, maintained and operated. The response program shall also include information addressing the affordability of the child care to be provided. If the response program recommends that child care facilities be provided by existing facilities or through proposed facilities of others not part of the project, the applicant or developer shall provide sufficient information to the community development director to determine that the child care needs generated by the project shall be mitigated.

(b)

The child care survey shall include an assessment of the estimated child care service needs caused by the proposed project. The response program shall show how those needs for child care services are to be mitigated within the county including, but not limited to, the manner in which the establishment of those services and the use of child care facilities will be assured by the availability of qualified care providers and related resources.

(c)

The community development department shall make a determination of the adequacy of the response document no later than thirty days prior to the public hearing on the project. If the director of community development determines that child care needs have not been adequately established or that child care needs not be satisfied for a proposed project, the applicant or developer may be required to enter into a contract with the county providing for the preparation of a report by a consultant selected by the community development department but paid for by the developer, to evaluate and assist in determining child care needs and programs to adequately address those needs for the proposed project.

(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 accordance with applicable law, toward child care facility needs in lieu of undertaking the child care survey required in this section. Such fee shall be reserved by the county to assist in meeting the child care facility needs in the community in which such development is located.

(Ords. 92-56 § 4, 88-1 § 3).