Committee debates whether Orono’s connection fees already cover development impacts
Staff presented examples showing the town's per-gallon connection fee can exceed what some communities collect as an impact fee; committee discussed whether to treat connection and impact fees separately, and asked staff for models that balance infrastructure recovery with housing goals.
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Committee members examined how the town currently calculates connection fees and whether the connection fee model overlaps with or replaces a separate impact fee. Chris gave the committee a worked example: under Orono’s per-gallon connection-fee method, a hotel that added roughly 4,400 gallons per day produced a connection fee roughly equal to $27,000.
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