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St. Tammany Parish officials present updated impact-fee study, propose raising income threshold for waiver
Summary
Consultants presented a parishwide update of drainage and transportation impact fees, recommending calculated fees (not simple CPI adjustments), modest net changes for most land uses, and a proposed change to raise the residential waiver from a “very low income” to a “low income” threshold so more households qualify.
Consultants for St. Tammany Parish on Thursday presented a parishwide update to development impact fees and proposed raising the income threshold that qualifies households for a waiver.
Steve Villavazzo of Villavazzo & Associates told the council that an impact fee is a one-time, calculated charge placed on new development to offset the residual, cumulative costs a project imposes on roads, drainage and other infrastructure. “An impact fee has to be specific, related to a specific area,” Villavazzo said, and the study, he said, uses established methodologies rather than simple inflation indexing to set reasonable, defensible fees.
Ross Lyon, the parish director of planning and development, and Fred (Villavazzo’s colleague) said the analysis revisits the 2005 and 2012 studies and expands the study area to the entire parish. The consultants said some fees…
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