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Marin County board authorizes RFPs to study development impact fees and updates to off-site standards

Marin County Board of Supervisors · March 10, 2026
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Summary

The Board authorized agreements to prepare objective off-site design standards and a nexus/feasibility study of development impact fees, directing staff to publish RFPs and to return with findings to inform policy choices about fee levels and exemptions, particularly for affordable housing.

The Marin County Board of Supervisors voted to move forward with two related initiatives to guide future development: updates to objective off-site public-works standards and a nexus/feasibility study on development impact fees.

Community Development Director Sarah Jones explained staff plans to modernize off-site public works standards and to focus first on urbanized corridors, then rural street standards, and later utilities, lighting, storm drainage and grading standards. Staff recommended contracting Opticos Design Inc. for standards work and…

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