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Burlington staff propose refocusing impact fees on water, sewer and multimodal transportation
Summary
A consultant and city staff presented a multi-year study recommending that Burlington concentrate new impact fees on water, sewer (buy-in) and multimodal transportation, shelving other facility fees for now because many capital needs identified are maintenance or replacement rather than capacity-expanding projects.
City staff and outside consultants presented draft recommendations Wednesday to rewrite Burlington’s impact fee structure and supported moving most fee collection to water, sewer and a newly framed multimodal transportation fee.
Consultants said the city’s existing fee schedule, adopted in the 1990s and rarely updated, produces only modest revenue—about $350,000 annually citywide across all fee categories—and that most departments’ upcoming capital projects are maintenance or replacement work ineligible under the legal tests for impact fees.…
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