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Ephrata officials review proposed transportation and parks impact fees
Summary
A consultant presented an impact-fee methodology for Ephrata, proposing a transportation basis of about 3,224 PM-peak trips and a per-trip rate of $2,095 and park-fee ranges of $169–$913 per resident (about $450–$2,500 per single-family home); staff recommended indexing fees to construction costs; no fee vote was taken.
Tim Wood, a consultant working with the city, outlined a proposed methodology for transportation and parks impact fees for Ephrata at the meeting. He said the transportation fee’s denominator is the expected increase in PM peak-hour trips over 20 years and that, after adjustments, the city’s growth basis is roughly 3,224 PM peak-hour trips. He stated the net allocable transportation cost basis is about $6.8 million, which produces a PM-peak-hour rate of $2,095 per trip that would form the basis of the transportation impact fee.
Wood described the fee formula as eligible capital costs divided by units of growth and noted that certain outside funding would be deducted from the project cost before calculating fees. He said the methodology applies trip-generation rates from the Institute of Transportation Engineers so different land uses (single-family, multifamily, commercial) result in different per-unit fees. "So…
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