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Auburn staff outline purpose of traffic impact fees, propose downtown modeling and schedule for fee updates
Summary
City engineers and public works staff explained how traffic impact fees (TIF) fund growth-related capacity projects, described current downtown reductions and fee levels, and laid out a schedule for code and fee updates this summer and fall following recent state law changes and council feedback on transparency and flexibility.
City staff presented an overview of Auburn’s traffic impact fee (TIF) program on May 27, telling the City Council the fee helps pay for transportation capacity projects needed to serve growth and that the program cannot, by law, cover every trip or every development.
Jacob Sweeting, assistant director of public works, said traffic impact fees are designed to charge development proportionally for the peak-hour trips it generates and to apply those fees to a program of capacity projects. “Traffic impact fees help pay for the transportation projects that help provide for those trips that are needed to serve that growth and development,” Sweeting said.
Nut graf: staff emphasized TIF is only one of several funding tools — statutory rules prevent collecting fees for development outside the city and for some existing development,…
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