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Edgewood panel reopens debate on transportation impact fees to lure businesses
Summary
At an EDAP meeting March 3, staff and board members discussed how Edgewood's transportation impact fees (TIFs) affect nonresidential development and agreed to return with a prioritized list of uses for potential fee relief.
Edgewood's Economic Development Advisory Panel (EDAP) spent the bulk of its March 3 meeting discussing how the city's transportation impact fees apply to nonresidential development and whether reduced or targeted fee schedules could help attract desired businesses to the Meridian corridor and town center.
The board heard staff explain that the city's only fee that currently applies to nonresidential uses is the transportation impact fee, which is calculated on a "per-trip" basis using Institute of Transportation Engineers (ITE) trip-generation categories, while the city's land-use table uses NAICS codes. Public works director Chuck Hendrickson and planning staff told the panel the difference requires judgment when mapping city land-use categories to the ITE trip rates used to compute fees.
EDAP members and several residents raised concerns that a one-time impact fee can feel punitive to developers and…
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