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Planning commission recommends sending impact‑fee study to council; raises timing concerns for ongoing developments
Summary
After a public hearing on Feb. 19, the North Augusta Planning Commission voted 5–1 to forward a consultant’s impact‑fee study and model ordinance to city council with a recommendation that council pay particular attention to ordinance timing and how the fees affect developments already underway.
The North Augusta Planning Commission voted 5–1 on Feb. 19 to recommend that city council consider an impact‑fee program based on a consultant’s capital improvement plan and fee analysis, while urging council to take special care in drafting the ordinance to address developments already underway.
Planning staff summarized the consultant’s study and the legal constraints for impact fees in South Carolina: fees are one‑time charges collected at the time of building permits to fund growth‑related capital improvements (not operations), must be kept in a separate interest‑bearing account, spent within three years of the scheduled construction date in the CIP or refunded, are uniform (no categorical exemptions), and require an annual fiscal report and an analysis of impacts on affordable housing. Tommy Paradise told the commission, “If…
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