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Cape Coral staff previews mobility-fee plan to replace 20-year-old road impact fee
Summary
City transportation planner Laura Dodd presented a plan-based "mobility fee" to the Planning and Zoning Commission June 4 that would repeal the existing road impact fee, expand what development-generated transportation fees can fund and tie fees more directly to local projects and trip generation rates.
Laura Dodd, the City of Cape Coral’s principal transportation planner, told the Planning and Zoning Commission on June 4 that the city is preparing to replace its 20-year-old road impact fee with a plan-based “mobility fee.” The change would move Cape Coral from a capacity-focused, level-of-service approach toward a 20-to-25-year multimodal funding plan that can pay for sidewalks, bike lanes, streetscaping and other improvements in addition to traditional road capacity projects.
The proposal matters because Cape Coral’s current road impact fee has not been updated since 2006 and remains at roughly $3,347 for a standard single-family home, Dodd said. She described the mobility-fee approach as a more transparent, assessment-area driven system in which fees…
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