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Pasco County staff propose steep mobility-fee increases, board debates rural-lot discount
Summary
County engineers presented an extraordinary-circumstances workshop required by state law to justify mobility-fee increases, citing faster population growth, higher trip rates, rising construction costs and reduced state/federal revenue; commissioners debated lowering the five-acre rural discount to 2.5 acres or less and asked staff to refine tables before a May 5 adoption hearing.
Pasco County officials on Wednesday unveiled proposed mobility-fee increases and asked the Board of County Commissioners to provide direction before a May 5 adoption hearing.
Nick Yuran, the county engineer, told the board the workshop is required under state law whenever a local government seeks to raise mobility fees beyond statutory limits. He said the county faces four "extraordinary circumstances" that justify exceeding the usual thresholds: faster population growth than the last update anticipated, updated trip-generation rates, higher capital costs and a sharp decline in state and federal revenues for transportation projects.
"Our projected need for transportation facilities is nearly $7 billion because we will add 330,000 new residents and we will require an additional 950 lane miles to support the demand," Yuran said, adding that revenues without the proposed increases would leave a…
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