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Council debates park impact fee formula; staff recommends adopting 50% of calculated fee

3217318 · May 7, 2025
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Summary

Public Works presented a revised park impact fee analysis tied to the newly adopted CIP; staff recommended adopting a per‑square‑foot residential fee and setting the council‑adopted fee at 50% of the maximum defensible calculation to fund 10 years of projects while keeping fees moderate.

Duvall staff presented a consultant update to the city’s park impact fee methodology and recommended a council decision about the fee level to support the capital project list in the recently adopted parks, trails and open‑space plan.

City Engineer Larissa Grandel summarized work by consultant FCS to align the park impact fee with the city’s 2024 PTOS capital improvement project list. The consultant calculated a maximum defensible fee that uses occupancy and average dwelling‑unit square footage to generate per‑square‑foot residential…

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