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Council reviews parks master-plan amendment and corresponding impact-fee code changes
Summary
Staff presented amendments to the parks and recreation master plan that reduce the park plan from roughly $42 million to $26 million by removing some projects and updating maps, and an implementing ordinance to add a clear fee table to the municipal code using the revised plan.
Amy, parks staff, walked council through a comprehensive-plan amendment to Appendix G (parks and recreation master plan) and an ordinance to adopt municipal code chapter 20.9 to implement park impact fees. She said the amendment adds Smoky Point Community Park and other mapping updates, removes some Country Charm Park items that are unlikely to be constructed within the next 20 years, and updates exhibits and appendices that feed the fee calculation.
Amy summarized how the fee is calculated: starting with the revised park-cost total (which she said went 'from $42,000,000 to $26,000,000' after removing certain projects), dividing by the proposed population, applying Arlington’s historical 50 percent factor, and multiplying by persons-per-unit (the packet example used 2.64 persons for a single-family home). She gave an example figure for a single-family home of about $2,536.16 in impact fees and noted a reference table that produces per-unit fees for different housing types.
She also said staff coordinated with transportation staff to avoid double-dipping on projects that receive transportation funding (for example, some trail projects moved out of the park-fee calculations because transportation fees will cover them). Councilmembers asked for the specific pages in the packet and line-by-line comparisons of removed items; Amy pointed them to exhibit and appendix page numbers in the packet for review.
What’s next: council discussed whether to place the ordinance and plan amendment on the consent agenda; staff said they will provide the tables and documentation needed for the final ordinance.
