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Marion County accepts new impact-fee study; schedules workshops on faster fee increases
Summary
County commissioners accepted updated transportation and fire impact-fee analyses and voted to hold public workshops to consider declaring "extraordinary circumstances," a step that would allow faster, larger increases than state-prescribed annual steps.
Marion County commissioners on Feb. 18 accepted updated studies of transportation and fire rescue impact fees and voted unanimously to schedule public workshops and a hearing to consider declaring "extraordinary circumstances," which would let the county set impact fees higher and faster than the state’s default step-up schedule.
The action follows a presentation from Tracy Straub, the county’s assistant county administrator, and Kimberly Hatcher, growth services coordinator, who updated the board on refined transportation impact-fee calculations and an analysis of recent structural fire data used to set fire/EMS fees. Straub told commissioners the transportation study shows current single-family transportation fees at about $1,397; under the state’s statutory step-up…
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