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Tamarac planning board backs 25% cap on updated impact fees, recommends city commission adoption
Summary
The Tamarac Planning Board voted 4-0 to recommend the City Commission adopt a temporary ordinance updating the city's development impact-fee schedule, recommending a 25% increase as the phased maximum and adopting a new fee schedule for parks, government facilities and multimodal transportation based on a new 10-year growth forecast.
The Tamarac Planning Board on Wednesday unanimously recommended the City Commission adopt a temporary ordinance to update the city's development impact-fee program, endorsing staff's recommendation to implement a 25% increase in fees in a two-year, phased schedule.
The proposal, presented by the city's consultant, Carson Vice of TischlerBise, would revise fees for parks and recreation, governmental facilities and multimodal transportation and simplify nonresidential fee categories into five broad groups. "It's not a tax, but more like a contractual arrangement to provide infrastructure," Vice said while explaining the legal tests that an impact-fee study must meet.
The board was presented a ten-year growth projection the consultant used to establish need and proportionality: roughly…
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