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Downtown property owner urges council to seek alternatives to proposed police and fire impact fee increases
Summary
At a public hearing on police and fire impact fees a downtown property owner told the council that higher impact fees would make affordable housing and commercial improvements more difficult to deliver, asking the council to consider alternatives; no action was taken and the council accepted public comment.
The City of Kalispell opened a public hearing on June 16 to receive comment on the council’s intent to consider a proposed increase to police and fire impact fees. A downtown property owner urged the council to consider alternatives to raising fees, citing the local difficulty of providing affordable housing and commercially reasonable rents.
Nut graf: The public comment urged caution about raising development-related impact fees because the added cost could impede affordable housing production and commercial property improvements in the city’s downtown.
Public comment summary - Keesa Davidson, who identified herself as a property and business owner on Sixth Avenue East in Kalispell, told councilors that while she recognized pressure on police and fire services from growing demand, she asked the council to consider alternatives to raising impact fees because higher fees would make it more difficult to deliver affordable housing and maintain reasonably priced commercial properties.
Council response: The city accepted public comment as part of the hearing and did not take immediate action; staff presented the hearing and public comment was recorded for council consideration.
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