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Consultant outlines proposed annual amendments to Grantsville impact fees; some fees shift by land use
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Summary
A consultant presented proposed annual amendments to Grantsville City's parks and capital facilities impact fee analysis, noting modest fee changes across land-use types, a 90-day waiting period before fees take effect, and that transportation impact fees will be updated after the transportation master plan is adopted. No action was taken tonight.
Robert (identified in the transcript alternately as "Robert Russo" and "Robert Roussel") presented proposed annual amendments to the city's parks and capital facilities impact fee analyses and answered questions about assumptions, growth rates and eligibility.
He said the consulting team updates impact fee calculations annually based on demographics, level-of-service standards and recent building-permit trends. For 2026 the team used updated demographic figures from the city's recent sewer-rate update and a planning assumption of 3.5% growth for the early years, stabilizing to about 4% across a 10-year planning window. He told the commission: "We did utilize the demographics that we had updated for the 2026 sewer rates" and said that the commercial growth rate was revised downward to about 1% based on several years of local permit activity.
Robert described changes in fee eligibility and calculations: some drinking-water and treatment projects are developer-funded and therefore not impact-fee eligible; the Northstar tank is waiting on a connecting waterline before it can be filled and is currently not impact-fee eligible; wastewater projects (treatment plant, Westbank interceptor upsize) are included and will influence fee calculations; and parks remain at the city's adopted level of service (4 acres per 1,000 population) with some project phasing adjustments.
He also explained a change in how public-safety impacts are measured: the team used 2025 police-call data to estimate calls per dwelling unit and said single-family units average about 0.575 calls per unit, multifamily nearly 2 calls per unit and nonresidential uses about 2.5 calls per unit; those counts contributed to modest fee adjustments for nonresidential and multiunit categories.
On procedure, he noted impact fees require a statutory waiting period (90 days) before an approved fee goes into effect and said staff will continue to review project phasing and eligibility; the transportation impact fee will be revisited once the transportation master plan is finalized.
Commissioners and council members asked whether the city strategically keeps fees competitive with neighboring municipalities; Robert said the analysis must be defensible and legally defensible and that cities generally balance competitiveness with the need to fund capital improvements.
Next steps: the team will post amended reports and allow the statutory review period before any fee ordinance changes take effect; the transportation impact fee will be updated once the transportation plan is adopted.