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Bothell studies area‑based and affordable‑housing discounts as it updates transportation impact fees
Summary
At a study session councilmembers asked staff and consultants to model area‑specific fee adjustments, affordable‑housing reductions and options for change‑of‑use and parking‑based approaches before returning with math and trade‑off scenarios this fall.
Bothell City Council spent extensive discussion time July 1 on a staff briefing and consultant overview of a transportation impact fee update, asking staff to return with policy options, technical models and example cases before any fee changes are adopted.
The city’s consultants summarized the standard impact‑fee calculation: identify growth‑related capacity projects, estimate new person‑trips, divide eligible costs by trips to calculate a cost per trip, then translate that cost into a schedule of fees by land use. Fehr & Peers consultant Carmen Kwan and city staff reported preliminary figures from the existing study: a sample eligible project list totaling about $61 million divided by roughly 6,000 person‑trips produced about $10,000 per person‑trip; the city’s current per‑unit comparisons showed single‑family rates in the midrange of peer cities and multifamily rates substantially lower (example figures presented in packet: roughly $12,000 for single‑family…
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