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Council rejects proposed increases to police and fire impact fees after committee recommendations and state law change
Summary
Council voted down a resolution to adopt revised police and fire impact fees reflecting Impact Fee Committee recommendations and changes in state law that removed administrative fees; the resolution failed after debates about housing affordability and fee pass-through to renters and buyers.
The Kalispell City Council declined on July 7 to adopt proposed changes to police and fire impact fees that the city's impact-fee committee had recommended and that staff updated to comply with recent state law.
City staff told council the draft changes reflected the committee's recommended "calculated allowable" fees and had been updated to remove an administrative surcharge after recent state legislation. "As I start off, you know, we had, basically, a pretty close memo to this at our work session and then, incorporated state law that was passed to remove the administrative fee from the allowable impact fee," the staff presenter said, adding he had discovered a historical table typo for…
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