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Miami Beach committee backs updating impact fees, indexes utility connection fees to CPI
Summary
The City of Miami Beach Finance & Economic Resiliency Committee on Oct. 15 recommended that the full commission adopt staff proposals to index water and sewer connection fees to the CPI, perform a one‑time inflation catch‑up for sanitation rates, and update parks fees toward an impact‑fee model tied to a new parks master plan.
The Finance & Economic Resiliency Committee on Oct. 15 reviewed a systematic analysis of the city’s impact fees and recommended that the full commission approve a set of administrative changes aimed at keeping user charges current with inflation and the city’s planned levels of service.
Richard Ajami, assistant budget director, presented the review, explaining that staff divided charges into two categories: true impact/connection fees that are tied to new development and fees that can be mitigated or are percentage based. Ajami said the main takeaway is “impact fees, you can't mitigate them,” and described how staff proposes to update or maintain each fee category.
Key administrative recommendations the committee endorsed to send to the full…
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