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Committee reviews draft transportation impact fee program, highlights credits for Snoqualmie Mill and comprehensive-plan projects
Summary
City staff and planners returned draft ordinance AB24-096 for further committee review, emphasizing a credit mechanism for projects listed in the rate study and clarifying how the program would interact with the Snoqualmie Mill development agreement and other comprehensive-plan mitigation projects.
The Community Development Committee on the evening discussed agenda bill AB24-096, a draft ordinance and rate study that would create a citywide transportation impact fee program and a mechanism for developers to receive credits when they build projects already listed in the rate study.
City staff said the rate study posted with the committee packet was updated to include a list of assumptions and an explicit project list to make the program more transparent. Transportation planner Chris Bridal told the committee that projects already on the rate-study list — including some regional improvements identified in the Snoqualmie Mill EIS — can be implemented by a developer and then counted as an impact-fee credit against the fee they otherwise would owe.
Why it matters: the change is intended to standardize mitigation and reduce later negotiations by establishing cost estimates and credit rules up front.…
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