A $670,000 Check From San Antonio Shopping Center to LASD

All that construction at San Antonio Shopping Center has a silver lining.

Really. To the tune of $670,000 in developer's fees.

Assistant Superintendent for Business Randall Kenyon said Tuesday night that the check arrived last week and has been deposited. The money goes toward facilities for enrollment growth, Kenyon said, so it pays for portable classrooms and charter school classrooms, for example.

However eye-popping, the payment is a single event. Apartments, unlike condominiums, do not represent a large source of parcel tax revenue, since apartments are not divided into individual parcels.

Developer's fees, coincidentally are probably going up.

The board voted unanimously to accept a developer fee justification study by Sacramento-based Burke Consulting Tuesday night. It looked at projected enrollments and the residential development projections. The school district has used the consultant, who conducts similar studies for school districts around the state, for about dozen years, Kenyon said. The state allows fees to be adjusted for inflation every two years, and the study supported fees of $2.13 per square foot and a maximum commercial/industrial fee of $0.34 per square foot as permitted by the state education code.

The board will consider the fee proposal at a future meeting after allowing for public inspection of the study and the proposal.