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Committee asks for data as impact‑fee revenue and building permits fall
Summary
Committee members asked staff to quantify the fiscal cost of declining building permits and to provide details on impact‑fee collections; staff reported police/fire impact‑fee collections of about $1.2M in FY25 and an accumulated balance near $4.5M and said those funds are restricted and must be spent on eligible capital within ten years.
Committee members asked the management service director and finance staff to quantify the fiscal effect of a multi‑year decline in building permits and to clarify how development impact fees are collected and used.
An unidentified committee member cited city website figures and said that since 2020 Flagstaff’s building permits have generally fallen each year, with a 41% drop reported for 2024 compared with state and national increases. The member asked staff to calculate…
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