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Findlay Township advisory committee begins review of transportation impact-fee program, requests crash data and property lists
Summary
Staff and an HRG representative told the advisory committee that the township's transportation impact-fee study underpins the Capital Improvement Plan, that the program needs updating, and that police crash data and lists of developed/proposed properties are needed to guide revisions.
Findlay Township staff and a consultant told the Impact Fee Advisory Committee on May 27 that the township's transportation impact-fee program should be reviewed and updated to support the Capital Improvement Plan.
Brandon Stanick, the township's Assistant Manager and Planning Administrator, told the committee that the foundational impact-fee study is recorded in the minutes as completed in 2007 and that the minutes list updates in 2004, 2016 and 2020; Stanick emphasized that the study data should be used to inform the township's Capital Improvement Plan, which he said currently includes 25 projects. (The minutes list those years as recorded; the sequence appears inconsistent within the minutes.)
Darren Myer, representing engineering firm HRG, described the technical approach used to set impact fees: applying land-use assumptions to forecast commercial and residential development, and conducting roadway sufficiency analyses to estimate needs for intersections, road widening, turn lanes and traffic signals. According to Myer, the purpose of the program is to provide a mechanism for the township to collect fees that would help implement necessary road projects. He told the committee the program "needs to be reviewed and updated," as recorded in the minutes.
Lieutenant Neil Cridge of the police department said officers can compile crash-data "hot spot" lists from police reports; he identified Moody Road as a crash hot spot and stated that at that location a turning lane alone would not be effective without a traffic signal. The committee listed the specific data items it wants staff to assemble before the next meeting: properties that have developed under the Transportation Service Area (TSA) map, properties proposed for development under the TSA, the amount of impact fees that were missed for properties developed outside the TSA, a comparison of impact-fee amounts used by other regional communities, and crash data for projects on the CIP and projects not on the CIP.
Committee members agreed to set the next meeting date after staff and police provide the requested property lists and crash data so the advisory committee can evaluate fee calculations and project priorities.
