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Herriman council weighs high transportation impact fee for proposed Beto’s site, agrees to study update and further discussion
Summary
Council debated whether to apply a site-specific traffic study that set a $98,000 transportation impact fee for a proposed Beto’s restaurant, discussed options to defer or cap payment while the city updates its impact‑fee study, and asked staff for a work session to review economic-development tradeoffs and legal constraints.
Councilmembers spent the bulk of their Feb. 12 meeting debating transportation impact fees after staff presented three fee scenarios for a proposed restaurant at Main Street and 126 South.
Bryce, an engineering staff member, told the council the city’s impact-fee methodology comes from its transportation master plan to 2050 and Institute of Transportation Engineers (ITE) trip‑generation rates, and that the city adopted updated fees in 2023 that equal about $408 per daily trip. For the applicant’s site, the ITE average produced a fee in the neighborhood of $160,000; the developer’s site‑specific traffic study produced a lower fee of roughly $98,000; and using the most comparable land‑use category on the city’s fee schedule (a retail strip mall) would yield about $22,294.
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