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Cedar Falls panel backs moving forward with park-dedication ordinance tied to parks master plan
Summary
Consultant Rita Trapp and staff outlined a proposed park-dedication ordinance that would tie required land or fee-in-lieu to a formula from the parks master plan (6 acres per 1,000 residents, cap 10%), set land suitability rules, and require district-tracked funds for fees; council gave consensus to advance the ordinance for public hearing.
Rita Trapp, AICP, vice president at consulting firm HKGI, told the City of Cedar Falls Committee of the Whole on Oct. 6 that a proposed park-dedication ordinance would link required dedication to the city's recently completed parks master plan and a formula-based standard. "The recommendation is 6 acres of parkland per 1,000 residents," Trapp said, adding the metric is expressed in the draft as 0.006 acres per person.
The draft ordinance uses that formula and a cap to avoid disproportionate impacts on dense developments: Trapp said the proposal caps required dedication at 10% of a project's land area. She illustrated how a hypothetical 100-unit, low-density subdivision would yield about 1.74 acres of required dedication under the formula and said the census-based household-size factor (2.9 persons per household in the example) will be updated with new…
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