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Bonita Springs council directs staff to study mobility-fee option as alternative to traditional road impact fees
Summary
City staff presented three fee approaches — road impact fee, multimodal impact fee and mobility fee — and council directed staff to investigate a mobility-fee framework to gain funding flexibility for multimodal projects and technology investments.
City staff presented options for transportation impact fees and the council broadly endorsed exploring a mobility-fee approach that focuses on moving people rather than only counting vehicle trips.
Dr. Margaret Banyan explained the distinctions: road impact fees target vehicle capacity needs, multimodal fees are a hybrid that can fund sidewalks and bike lanes, and mobility fees are built from a city’s mobility vision and can fund broader options including transit, micro‑mobility and transportation technology. "The basic question then is not about moving vehicles. The basic question is about moving people," she said.
Councilmembers who spoke supported additional study: they noted that much of the city’s vehicle network is under county or state control, constraining local road interventions, and argued a mobility fee could fund pedestrian safety, bike networks, transit connections and smart transportation systems. Staff cautioned state constraints on impact‑fee increases and noted a required local study and statutory timing rules; council agreed staff should develop options and return with analysis, districts and draft fee constructs for later action.
Next steps: staff will prepare a study of mobility and multimodal fee options, including assessment districts and potential incentive structures, consistent with state impact‑fee rules. Council emphasized that any fee increase would be a future policy decision and is not required by the study itself.
