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Council debates stormwater fees and an 'adequate public facilities' ordinance as part of FY27 planning items
Summary
Council members and staff debated whether to pursue a stormwater utility or fee and whether an adequate public facilities ordinance (an alternative to impact fees) should be adopted; staff recommended phased studies and said an enterprise stormwater utility could be years away pending infrastructure inventory.
York County Council members and staff spent a substantial portion of the April 14 workshop weighing how to fund and manage stormwater infrastructure, with staff recommending a sequence of studies before any fee or utility is created.
Tom and other staff said the county is in the early stages of inventorying stormwater infrastructure to determine whether a stormwater fee or separate utility is appropriate. “We have to understand what infrastructure we have…how our basins work throughout the county,” Tom said, noting such studies are the first phase toward…
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