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Belgrade council leans toward lot-size fee as staff refines urban-forestry assessment
Summary
City staff presented two options for funding a new urban-forestry program; after questions about equity and downtown impacts, council members signaled support for a refined lot-size (bracketed) assessment and asked staff to test alternate weightings and caps before a formal proposal.
Jordan Green, Belgrade’s director of Parks, Trails and Recreation, presented options for funding a proposed urban-forestry program and assessment fee, telling the council the city is in its second year of a flat-fee charge and consultants (Cushing Terrell) examined equitable alternatives.
Green said the consultants modeled two primary approaches: a bracketed lot-size method that scales fees by parcel area, and a land-use (zoning) approach that assigns weights to residential, commercial and industrial parcels. “This is purely representative of how this…
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