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Supervisors split over higher transportation sustainability fee; duplicate ordinance sent back to committee
Summary
Board members debated raising the city's Transportation Sustainability Fee (TSF) on very large nonresidential projects. Supervisor Avalos proposed increasing the fee and grandfathering some projects; the Board voted to duplicate the file and send the debated amendments back to committee for further study.
Supervisors spent hours debating a proposed citywide Transportation Sustainability Fee to replace the prior Transit Impact Development Fee. At the Dec. 8 board meeting Supervisor John Avalos asked that the board duplicate the TSF file so amendments could be considered that would increase the fee for large nonresidential properties and include a one-time grandfathering formula for certain projects already in the pipeline.
Avalos argued the city's nexus study showed the fee levels in the draft TSF left money "on the table" and that a $2-per-square-foot increase on…
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