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Woodland council weighs fee deferrals, credits and limited waivers in transportation impact-fee workshop
Summary
City staff and the city attorney told Woodland's council on Monday they can legally offer short deferrals and developer-agreement payment plans for transportation impact fees, but broad fee holidays would shift costs to taxpayers and require explicit policy changes.
City staff and council on Monday explored ways to reduce the up-front burden of transportation impact fees for new development while protecting the city's future transportation projects.
Travis Goddard, Woodland's community development director, told the council the city's updated impact-fee study increased the per-peak-trip charge sharply from the prior $828 figure to a level the council set as high as about $8,500 per evening peak-hour trip after a multi-year recalculation of needed projects and construction costs. The council has been phasing in the increase over three years; the city is currently at roughly 90 percent of the new rate and scheduled to reach 100 percent on Nov. 6, 2025.
Goddard outlined two tools the city can use to help developers: an occupancy deferral and a fee holiday. An occupancy deferral delays collection until the building is occupied; state law limits such deferrals to 18 months, city attorney Emily said. Fee holidays temporarily waive or reduce fees, a tactic Woodland used…
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