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Farr West holds public hearing on proposed transportation utility fee to fund roads
Summary
City staff and a consulting engineer presented a study showing multiple fee scenarios; the council took public comment but made no decision. Under one scenario, $3 per equivalent residential unit (ERU) per month would roughly double current road funding; $10 per ERU would generate roughly $1.3 million annually.
Farr West — Farr West City Council held a public hearing July 17 on a proposed transportation utility fee (TUF) intended to raise new, dedicated revenue for street maintenance and preservation.
The council heard a detailed presentation from Zach Burke of Jones and Associates, the city's consulting engineer, who laid out pavement-condition data, funding gaps and modeled revenue scenarios. Burke told the council that the city’s current street funding — roughly $382,000 a year from Class C and other sources — would not keep pace with wear and increasing road miles and that, “this is not new to the state of Utah.”
The presentation used an equivalent-residential-unit, or ERU, approach to assign fees based on estimated daily trip generation for every parcel in the city.…
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