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Calimesa council approves first reading of ordinance updating regional TUMF participation; public hearing held
Summary
City council held a public hearing on updates to the Western Riverside County Transportation Uniform Mitigation Fee (TUMF) program, heard WRCOG staff explain fee changes and modeling, and adopted first reading of Ordinance No. 408 by a 5-0 vote.
Calimesa City Council held a public hearing on proposed updates to the Western Riverside County Transportation Uniform Mitigation Fee (TUMF) program and voted 5-0 to approve the ordinance’s first reading.
City Engineer Mike Thornton told the council the item updates the city’s participation in the regional TUMF program and reflects a 2024 nexus study that reidentified eligible mitigation projects and revised fee calculations. “TUMF is a funding plan. It's basically a development impact fee,” Thornton said, adding that the program focuses on increasing regional road and interchange capacity to mitigate traffic from new development.
The nexus study uses Southern California Associated Governments (SCAG) demographic and traffic forecasts and a transportation model to identify which interchanges and corridors will need capacity…
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