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Bothell Planning Commission approves updated Transportation Impact Fee findings, shifts measurement toward multimodal per-person trips
Summary
The Planning Commission approved revised findings and recommendations to update Bothell's Transportation Impact Fee (TIF), moving toward multimodal, per-person trip measures while retaining PM peak person-trip level-of-service; staff said the change includes exemptions and reductions to encourage childcare and neighborhood-scale reuse.
Bothell's Planning Commission on Feb. 4 approved findings, conclusions and recommendations to update the city's Transportation Impact Fee and associated Title 17 code language.
Boyd Benson, Utilities and Development Services Manager, told the Commission the revised approach replaces vehicle-only trip measures with per-person, multimodal trip generation (vehicles, bikes and pedestrians) and retains the PM peak-hour person-trip level-of-service as the primary standard for most development. Benson said the change is intended to reflect shifts in how people travel and to support citywide capacity planning for growth.
Why it matters: the change shifts the technical basis for how the city…
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