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Lake Stevens planning commission recommends council adopt 2025 docket; downtown impact fees expected to rise
Summary
The Lake Stevens Planning Commission voted 4-0 to forward the 2025 comprehensive-plan docket — updates to the 6- and 20-year capital improvement programs and transportation elements — to the City Council, including a staff proposal that would roughly double traffic impact fees for the downtown zone.
The Lake Stevens Planning Commission voted unanimously to forward the 2025 comprehensive-plan docket to the City Council, endorsing text and figure updates to the city’s 6-year and 20-year capital improvement programs and transportation elements.
Planning manager Christie Schmidt presented the package, noting staff worked with consultant Transpo to update the traffic impact-fee (TIF) methodology and the city’s TIF cost basis — the first update since 2012. Schmidt said the presentation included two late exhibits (11 and 12) and an earlier May 4 letter from the Master Builders Association of King and Snohomish County (exhibit 10). “We’re looking at a doubling in cost for T I Z 1,” Schmidt said, adding that the downtown zone’s fee would increase by about $3,000 to roughly $5,600; Zones 2 and 3 would see a modest increase of about $60.
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