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Commerce City council asks staff to revisit development, building and impact fees to improve competitiveness
Summary
Councilors were presented with valuation-based building fees and a recently updated impact-fee schedule; several members urged staff to return with revised fee options to make Commerce City more competitive with neighboring jurisdictions and to ease costs on developers and homebuyers.
Commerce City councilors on Tuesday reviewed the city's user fees, building permit fee structure and recently updated impact fees and asked staff to return with specific, revised options intended to make the city more competitive with neighboring jurisdictions.
Staff presented how land-use application fees are calculated under a cost-recovery model, explained the building-permit valuation approach (tied to standard valuation tables and local use tax), and summarized impact-fee methodology and recent updates. Jeff Bridal, director of community development, said the city's impact fees had not been updated for roughly 20 years prior to the 2023 revision and that the 2023 package added three new government impact fees (police, public works and general government) in addition to existing roads, drainage and parks fees.
Bridal explained how a nexus study assigns a share of systemwide infrastructure costs to different land uses and presented comparative figures: the…
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