Huge fee hike sought for new S.D. homes | The San Diego Union-Tribune

Note that this would come on top of already astronomical housing prices. The median home in San Diego now sells for $580,000, as I noted in a previous post.

San Diego officials are calling for a nearly tenfold average increase in a fee for new-home construction to keep pace with park and recreation needs. The proposal faces opposition from builders, affordable-housing advocates and the city's advisory Park and Recreation Board, which rejected the idea 4-1 yesterday. The average city park impact fee would increase from $2,637 per unit to $24,755 as outlined in a March 9 report by a deputy director of the Park and Recreation Department. In the report, April Penera said no waiver should be granted for the proposed increase in areas targeted for affordable housing.