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Council tables Liberty Business Park infrastructure-fee proposal after developers and landowners raise concerns
Summary
After lengthy testimony from a developer and landowners and questions from council, the City Council voted to table consideration of a plan-area impact fee and associated nexus study for the Liberty Business Park specific plan area.
The Escalon City Council on March 12 voted to table consideration of a plan-area infrastructure impact fee and the Nexus study for the Liberty Business Park specific plan area after public testimony raised concerns about the fee’s assumptions and potential effect on development.
City planning staff and consultant Jalen French told the council the fee is intended to recoup infrastructure costs tied to the 2007 specific plan and to require new development to pay its proportionate share under the Mitigation Fee Act (California Government Code section 66000). The plan-area fee would direct funds from new development into a fund for roads, utilities and other…
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