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Sparks advisory committee recommends council adopt RTC's updated regional road impact fee
Summary
The City of Sparks Capital Improvement Advisory Committee voted unanimously to recommend City Council approve the Regional Transportation Commission's eighth-edition Regional Road Impact Fee update, which includes modest fee decreases, updated VMT assumptions and administrative changes to the GAM. RTC staff said the business-impact review found no significant burden on local businesses.
The City of Sparks Capital Improvement Advisory Committee voted unanimously to recommend that the Sparks City Council approve the Regional Transportation Commission's proposed eighth-edition Regional Road Impact Fee update, including revised land-use assumptions, a 10-year capital improvement plan and edits to the general administrative manual.
Jeff Wilbrecht, engineering manager at the Regional Transportation Commission (RTC Washoe), told the committee the RIF program makes new development pay for its share of regional road capacity and is based on a land-use forecast from the Truckee Meadows Regional Planning Agency and RTC's travel-demand model. "As new development comes into our community, we assess impact fees that pay for regional road improvements," Wilbrecht said, describing the method that converts…
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