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Star staff and municipal adviser present impact-fee package that would more than double park fee per home
Summary
City advisers told the Star City Council workshop the draft impact-fee study supports higher fees to cover projected growth-driven parks, pathways and police costs; the parks fee would rise from $2,050 to about $5,869 per new home and the council set a public hearing for April 7.
Mayor Trevor Chadwick opened the March 20 workshop by saying the council would not decide the issue at this meeting and scheduled a public hearing for April 7.
The city’s municipal adviser, Christine Stoll of Clearwater Financial, walked the council through a yearlong impact-fee study that pairs demographic forecasts, capital-improvement plans (CIPs) and statutory eligibility rules to calculate maximum supportable fees. Stoll said the report uses U.S. Census, regional Compass data and recent building-permit history, and that the analysis assumes a medium growth scenario that projects a population near 45,816 by 2035.
Why it matters: Stoll said the CIPs list roughly $64 million in potential improvements over 10 years, about $50 million of which the study judged growth-related and therefore potentially allowable to be funded with impact fees. That determination — and the cost assumptions used to price land and facilities — determines how large the fee for new development could be.
"The idea is to make sure that, growth…
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