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Planning director explains proffers and county capital‑impact model; cites recent $4,000/unit example
Summary
The Planning Director described how proffers are calculated using county CIP costs and gave the Guatly Farm proffer of approximately $4,000 per unit as a recent benchmark; the county runs a capital impact model to estimate per‑student and per‑facility capital needs.
The Planning Director explained how the county determines reasonable proffers for residential development, saying staff uses actual costs in the county’s capital improvement plan to calculate a developer’s pro rata share of impacts (for schools, fire/rescue, sheriff’s office and parks and recreation).
He cited Bridgepoint Conference as a recent example where projected school costs in the CIP informed proposed school proffers, and noted that the Guatly Farm proffered about $4,000 per unit. "It was calculated using the projected cost of the new high school addition...so it was calculated using the projected cost of the new high school addition," the Planning Director said, explaining the model correlates development impacts to capital items in the CIP. The director also emphasized that proffers are voluntary offers by the developer and the board decides whether to accept them.
