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Oviedo council reviews impact-fee technical report; directs staff to seek first reading and pursue parks master plan
Summary
At a workshop Oct. 20, Oviedo councilmembers were briefed on a consultant’s updated impact-fee technical report covering parks, fire/rescue, police and administrative facilities and instructed staff to prepare an ordinance for first reading to set fees at the maximum allowed by state statute, phased over four years.
The Oviedo City Council on Oct. 20 held a workshop presentation on an updated impact-fee technical report covering parks and recreation, fire/rescue, law enforcement and administrative facilities. The consultant recommended updated fee calculations based on projected population and employment growth, but noted statutory caps that limit how much the city can increase fees without a separate extraordinary-circumstances finding.
Jonathan Paul, principal of New Urban Concepts, presented the technical report. He explained the methodology: projecting population and employment growth (to create a ‘‘functional equivalent population’’ that counts employees at a reduced impact rate), estimating facility needs and costs over a 10-year horizon, and calculating per-resident or per-unit fees. Paul said the firm modeled inflation…
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