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Pasco staff outline PASCO 2050 timeline and mobility-fee update; board asks for detailed fee tables
Summary
Planning staff said the comprehensive PASCO 2050 plan and a mobility-fee update must move quickly to meet statutory timelines; commissioners asked for the current mobility-fee tables and stressed close scrutiny of multifamily and parking impacts.
Planning staff told the board on April 9 that Pasco’s comprehensive-plan update (PASCO 2050) and a mobility-fee update are on a tight schedule and will require public workshops, open houses and a hearing schedule over the coming months.
Hyatt Mazile (Planning support) outlined a timeline that aims to finalize goal, objective and policy drafts and updated future land-use maps in May–June, hold public open houses in July, complete LPA and BOCC public hearings in August–September and transmit the plan to the state in late 2025 so adoption can occur by year-end. Staff said implementation work will begin in 2026.
Victor Espirito, PDEG, said the mobility-fee update is required by the state to ensure tables and rates are refreshed every four years; the current mobility-fee schedule must be effective by Jan. 1, 2026. The update will re-evaluate tables, consolidation, incentives for preferred land uses, and how to treat non-preferred uses.
Commissioners pressed staff for more detail on how apartments and multifamily development are treated in the fee schedule, and asked for a distribution of current charges. Espirito said multifamily currently pays the standard mobility-fee rate with no special incentive; some preferred uses (industrial) may have reduced or zero fees. Commissioners asked staff to circulate current mobility-fee tables to the board.
Why it matters: The mobility-fee schedule directly affects the costs of new development and the county’s ability to fund road and transportation infrastructure called for in PASCO 2050. Commissioners emphasized the need to align fee revenues with the county’s long-range vision and to scrutinize the traffic impacts of rapid multifamily growth.
Next steps: Staff plans to provide copies of the existing mobility-fee tables to commissioners, hold the open-house series in each commission district in June–July, and bring the mobility-fee update back to local planning and the board for hearings in summer–fall 2025. The board asked staff to ensure park, parking and towing implications are considered alongside traffic assumptions.
Ending: The mobility-fee study and PASCO 2050 update will proceed in parallel, with staff returning to the board with draft fee tables and a hearing schedule this summer.
