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Staff proposes water-supply impact fee to tie new demand to reliability costs; public outreach planned
Summary
Mesa presented an approach to charge new or intensified development for additional water-supply reliability costs via an impact fee collected at intent-to-serve, tying fees to allocations and describing potential uses for collected funds; board asked for additional public engagement.
Staff proposed a water-supply "impact fee" intended to charge new or intensifying development for the marginal reliability costs their additional demand may cause. Mesa framed the fee as distinct from allocations and the intensification review already adopted: allocations set existing baseline water rights, intensification flags projects that increase demand above that baseline, and the impact fee would be the dollar charge attached to new acre-feet.
Mesa said the fee would be applied to projects that trigger the district's "intent to serve" process. Staff would place a condition in the intent-to-serve…
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