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Mountlake Terrace officials outline updated transportation impact fee that adds multimodal projects
Summary
City staff and consultants described how the revised transportation impact fee will be calculated, expanded to fund multimodal projects, and applied to developers during an open house. Officials asked residents to suggest additional projects to include in the fee-funded list.
City of Mountlake Terrace staff and consultants described a proposed update to the city’s transportation impact fee program at a public open house, explaining how the fee would be calculated, which projects would be eligible and how developers would be credited or reimbursed for work tied to new growth.
The update expands the fee’s eligible uses to multimodal projects such as bike and pedestrian facilities, officials said, and keeps the program’s primary purpose: charging new development for its share of capacity-related improvements.
At the meeting, Chitra, a consultant with Ferron Pierce, summarized the legal basis and mechanics: “It is a 1 time charge paid by a new development to contribute to the infrastructure that that…
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