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Commission backs temporary impact-fee relief, fixed indexing and fee-deferral program
Summary
The Planning Commission voted to recommend an ordinance that caps annual fee indexing at 2%, locks fees at approval, reinstates a fee-deferral program (excluding housing-related impact fees), and provides temporary fee waivers for certain PDR and hospitality projects; the commission also supported small-business-focused elimination of change-of-use fees in many districts.
The Planning Commission on July 13 recommended approval of an ordinance intended to stabilize and reduce development impact fees to improve project feasibility and support economic recovery. The commission approved the measure, with Commissioner Imperial voting against, as part of a broader package that included the inclusionary housing adjustments.
Key elements approved include replacing the current annual indexing method (AICCIE) with a flat 2% annual indexing figure, locking in an approved project's impact fee amounts at the moment of commission approval (so later index increases do not affect that project's fees), and reinstating an impact-fee deferral program that…
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