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Sammamish staff recommend square‑foot scaling for parks and transportation impact fees; council questions affordable‑housing exemptions
Summary
Staff proposed a state‑law compliant methodology to scale parks and transportation impact fees by unit square footage, preserving the city's relative fee position. The council debated affordable‑housing reductions, ADU treatment and next steps toward a May 5 public hearing.
City planning staff on April 21 urged the Sammamish City Council to adopt a consultant‑recommended method for scaling parks and transportation impact fees to comply with state law that requires fees to scale with unit size.
David Pyle, director of Community Development, and Evan Fisher, the project manager, described a method developed with consultants (FCS) that converts the blended per‑unit fee into a per‑square‑foot rate and then applies a minimum and maximum bracket tied to U.S. Census and American Housing…
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