The City Council may establish as a part of the resolution authorizing the acceptance and processing of a Specific Plan, a fee or fees to be applied to a Specific Plan area in order to reimburse the City for the costs of preparation, processing or implementation of the Specific Plan. If a Specific Plan is initiated and prepared by the City, actual costs of said Plan shall be assessed based on relative benefits to the affected property owners. Notwithstanding the foregoing, no fee shall be established by the City in violation of the Contributor Agreements entered into by the City in 1991 as part of the City Council's Resolution No. 91-61.

Application fees for the review and preparation of Specific Plans shall be set forth by a resolution of the City Council as provided by Section 65456 of the California Government Code which allows fees to be charged in order to recover the costs incurred to review the applications, as well as prepare, review, and comment on the Specific Plan proposal and corresponding documents. This shall include, but not be limited to, staff time including consultants costs and environmental review, and may be revised from time to time as deemed necessary.

Where a Specific Plan is prepared and funded by less than one hundred percent (100%) of the property owners covered by the Plan, the preparers of the Specific Plan shall be entitled to reimbursement for all benefiting property owners. The property owners funding the Specific Plan shall submit information to the City Council regarding expenses incurred in the preparation of the Specific Plan. The City Council, either concurrently with, or subsequent to, the adoption of the Specific Plan shall make a determination of allowed reimbursable expenses and shall enter into a reimbursement agreement with the property owners in a form approved by the City Attorney.