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Council liaison outlines new transportation impact fee and utility rate pressures, cites $10 million reservoir project
Summary
Council liaison told the Planning Commission that the city adopted a transportation impact fee and is preparing utility-rate changes to cover a costly reservoir/tank replacement tied to golf-course irrigation; commissioners asked about scope and state regulatory drivers.
Council member Johnson, serving as the council liaison to the Planning Commission, briefed commissioners Jan. 21 on two council priorities: a newly adopted transportation impact fee and proposed utility-rate changes driven by several large projects and cost pressures.
“ This will help growth pay for growth as it is supposed to,” Council member Johnson said of the transportation impact fee, which the council adopted recently. Johnson summarized how the fee is calculated: it is based on the estimated number of trips generated per development unit and varies by use. As examples cited in the packet, a hospital would pay $6,212 per 1,000 square feet and a hotel would pay $4,904 per room.
Johnson said the impact-fee project list includes…
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