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Town planner and consultant present updated development impact‑fee study; residents warn fees could discourage housing
Summary
A consultant presented a nexus study that calculates the maximum defensible development impact fees across services; the study lists higher potential fees (single‑family and multifamily per‑unit figures were cited), and residents and councilors raised concerns that high fees could hinder housing supply and urged options such as tiering or exemptions for ADUs.
Ron, Middletown’s town planner, introduced a consultant report and nexus study on development impact fees at the March 3 council meeting and said the study produces the maximum defensible fee levels the town could collect.
Richard Ruiz of DTA, the consultant, walked the council through methodologies used to calculate fees for general government, police, fire, parks and sewer. He said the study uses a level‑of‑service approach for most functions and a plan‑based method for sewer; fees are calculated per residential unit, per thousand square feet for nonresidential uses, and by meter for sewer. Ruiz emphasized the numbers in the report represent the maximum fees a municipality can defensibly charge, not a staff or consultant recommendation of what the council…
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