Council sends transportation impact-fee proposal back to staff for more work

Oct 8, 2026

After a lengthy presentation and debate, the council remanded a proposed transportation impact-fee program to staff for further analysis and clarification on credits, business impacts and legal exposure instead of adopting it at the Oct. 7 meeting.

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Payson staff and outside consultants presented a proposed transportation impact-fee program intended to fund new regional roads and reimburse developers for oversize work. The presentation explained the methodology (trips and lane-mile calculations) and provided example figures; one cited average comparator for other cities was about $1,600 (per trip metric) and the study's example numbers placed Payson below some nearby cities on average.

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