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Village Board directs attorney to draft ordinance revising school, park and tap fees; sets $900 park fee
Summary
At its April 14 meeting the Village Board directed the village attorney to draft an ordinance that would revise how school impact fees are calculated, set a $900 per-household park impact fee, and swap the ordering of water and sewer tap fees; the board approved the instruction by roll call.
At its April 14 meeting the Village Board voted to direct the village attorney to draft an ordinance revising residential permit fees to include a $900 park impact fee, to adopt a recalculated school-impact methodology, and to flip the order of water and sewer tap fees.
The board took the action after a trustee presented the research used to derive the new figures and asked the board to send the changes to the village attorney for drafting. The presenter said the village used a Will County resolution to calculate land need per student, reporting that the county methodology “actually comes to 0.028 acres per student” and that, after estimating the share of the district population living within village limits, the village’s calculation produced “0.52 children per residential unit.”
The presenter told the board that those assumptions were used to allocate student demand by bedroom count (two-bedroom units assigned a small fraction, then 0.35 added for each extra bedroom) so the average children-per-unit would equal the 0.52 figure. The trustee said the calculations were reviewed with a school official (identified in the discussion as “Dr. Gahan”) and that finance staff were comfortable the numbers are “defensible.”
On park fees, the presenter said staff reviewed the list of neighborhood parks and used an estimated 2.75 acres per neighborhood park and an assumed land value of $100,000 per acre to reach a per-house charge. The trustee recommended a flat $900 park-impact fee per new house to be included in the residential permit fee ordinance.
The motion as moved instructed the village attorney to draft the ordinance reflecting the spreadsheet the presenter distributed, to set the park impact fee at $900 per house, and to flip the water and sewer tap-in fee order for now; the presenter said the board could amend the ordinance later if a more detailed engineering study required different tap-fee allocations.
The motion passed on a roll-call vote following the motion and a second. Board members indicated support during roll call.
The presenter recommended sending the draft immediately because a moratorium on impact fees is set to expire May 1. The presenter said the village could send the draft to the village attorney now and amend it later if the village or external reviewers (for example, the village engineer) recommend changes.
