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Cleveland workshop reviews draft impact-fee study proposing $3,505 per single-family-equivalent unit
Summary
Consultant Blau Engineering presented a draft impact-fee study that would set a combined water and wastewater fee of $3,505 per single-family-equivalent unit, based on a 10-year CIP of roughly $50 million; council members heard required next steps including public hearings and ordinance adoption but took no action at the workshop.
Blake Behringer of Blau Engineering told the Cleveland City Council workshop that the firm’s draft impact-fee study would levy a combined water and wastewater impact fee of $3,505 per single-family-equivalent unit, with $1,919 allocated to water and $1,586 to sewer. "The impact fee for water, we've calculated to be $1,919," Behringer said.
The consultant said those fees derive from a capital improvements plan of roughly "a little over $50,000,000" in projects over the next 10 years and a land-use-assumptions map that projects where residential, commercial and industrial growth will occur. The draft applies a 50 percent credit in its computations and converts nonresidential water demand to equivalent service units using meter-size and demand formulas.
Behringer gave a nonresidential…
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