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Tampa council finds grounds to pursue multimodal impact fee update after first workshop
Summary
City staff told council the multimodal impact fee — last revised in 1989 — has lost purchasing power and that extraordinary circumstances may justify an increase. Council signaled consensus to pursue additional study and public hearings to update the fee schedule.
City planning and legal staff briefed Tampa City Council on Wednesday about a proposed update to the city’s multimodal impact fee, telling the council that the existing fee schedule — last set in 1989 — no longer reflects construction costs or development patterns and that extraordinary circumstances exist to consider a larger update.
Emma Gregory, assistant city attorney, reviewed the legal framework the city must follow under Florida law, citing section 163.31801, which requires an impact-fee study and imposes limits on how often fees may be raised and how increases may be phased in. “Impact fees…can't be raised more than once every four years,” Gregory said, and increases of more than 50% trigger additional requirements: a demonstrated-needs study, two public…
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