Publisher's Note:This section has been AMENDED by new legislation (SFMTA Bd. Res. No. 200421-043
, adopted 4/21/2020, effective 5/22/2020, operative 7/01/2020). Superceded by SFMTA Bd. Res. No. , adopted 6/30/2020, effective 7/31/2020, operative 1/4/2021. The text of the amendment will be incorporated below when the new legislation is effective.
This fee reimburses the SFMTA for staff costs related to the review of environmental review documents and supporting analysis for development projects and area plans. This includes SFMTA staff review of and comment on Transportation Studies, environmental mitigations, transportation-related sections within programmatic or project-level environmental documents, as well as SFMTA staff participation in interdepartmental meetings on these subjects. There are two tiers of fee: Transportation Review Fee for projects that are multi-phased and require large infrastructure investment, or that are of statewide, regional, or area wide significance as defined in CEQA, or that require analysis of several transportation topics within a geographic area that extends beyond the project block; and Site Circulation Review Fee for projects that require limited, localized analysis of a few transportation topics circulation memos that focus analysis on a few specific transportation topics, such as loading.
