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Port St. Lucie council declines mobility-fee ordinance after debate over affordability; accepts technical report as data only
Summary
After staff presentations and public comment, the Port St. Lucie City Council accepted the mobility plan technical report as data only and voted to deny Ordinance 25-76, which would have adopted updated mobility fees and an extraordinary-circumstances finding; council debate centered on fee size, phase-in options and impacts on housing affordability.
Vice Mayor Carballo opened the public hearing on Ordinance 25-76, the city’s proposed 2050 mobility plan and revised mobility-fee ordinance, and invited staff to present the technical report and the extraordinary-circumstances study.
The council heard a staff-led stakeholder Q&A and a detailed presentation from Jonathan Paul, principal of New Urban Concepts, who said the fully calculated plan would total roughly $2.2 billion and that the city had assumed about $9,250,000 a year of other funding to help offset fees. Paul told the council the proposed city-only fee increases in some assessment areas exceed the 50% statutory threshold and therefore the council would need to find “extraordinary circumstances” to adopt increases beyond that cap. As Paul put it, “the fees are higher than the 50% threshold,” meaning an EC finding would be required to adopt the larger increases or an alternative phasing schedule.
The consultant outlined phased rates that would reach fully calculated 2029 levels if adopted unchanged, giving examples for a…
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