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Sandpoint council schedules public hearing on updated development impact fees
Summary
Council received a final draft of a development impact fee study that raises the maximum supportable fee levels and scheduled a July 16 public hearing to consider adoption and fee amounts; consultants and staff outlined methodology, possible phasing and an affordable-housing exemption option.
Sandpoint councilors on Wednesday reviewed a consultant’s final draft of an updated development impact fee study and voted to schedule a public hearing on the ordinance-setting fees for July 16. The city’s community planning director, Jason Welker, and consultants from Tishler Bisson presented the study, which recommends maximum-supportable fees that would replace the city’s 2012 fee schedule.
The study models five fee categories — parks and recreation, pathways, roads, police and fire — and calculates maximum supportable fees by measuring the city’s current levels of service, identifying growth‑related capital costs and apportioning a proportionate share to new development. The…
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