Christie Dimaster of Trilogy Consulting presented the city’s transportation facilities impact‑fee study during a first reading of Ordinance 2025‑33. Dimaster said the study assesses facility needs for an expanded street garage and estimates approximately $4.6 million of the new facility cost is attributable to future development.

Dimaster gave details on the proposed fee structure: an added $2,877 per single‑family home (as an addition to existing impact fees), graduated fees for multi‑family units based on persons per household, and 44¢ per square foot for new nonresidential construction to cover transportation facility costs attributable to future development. The study estimated about 33% of the expansion cost is reasonably attributable to new development, splitting recoveries roughly 63% residential and 37% nonresidential.

She noted statutory standards require that impact fees be proportional to the cost of facilities needed to serve new development and cannot be used to cure existing facility deficiencies. Dimaster said the completed impact‑fee study has been available at the clerk’s office since late October and that a public hearing and second reading is scheduled at the next council meeting; adoption would require compliance with state statutes and the tracking of revenues in a segregated fund until the recovery target is reached.

Council members asked about fee sunset provisions and how revenues would be tracked. Dimaster responded that fees would be tracked in a segregated fund and sunset once the identified recovery amount is reached; she cited the $4,600,000 recoverable figure in the study. No final council action was taken tonight; this was a first reading and informational presentation.