Kane County sets Oct. 19 public hearing on updated road-improvement plan and impact-fee changes
Summary
Planning staff told the Transportation Committee the Comprehensive Road Improvement Plan to 2035 lists about $1 billion in projects (roughly $972 million impact-fee-eligible) and recommended setting an Oct. 19 public hearing to display draft documents and get comment. Staff said current annual fee receipts average about $3 million.
Kane County planning staff recommended the county set an Oct. 19 public hearing to present a five-year update to the Comprehensive Road Improvement Plan and the county’s impact-fee program.
Heidi Likenberger, the Council director identified by staff during the presentation, said the county’s CRIT project list out to 2035 “is just over a billion dollars. Um we're required sorry 972 million of those are impact fee eligible.” She said the plan uses adopted land-use assumptions and travel-demand modeling to identify capacity deficiencies and to prepare planning-level cost estimates.
Likenberger told the committee that while the total plan cost is large, anticipated revenues available to the county over the plan horizon are substantially smaller. “Our expected revenues out to 2035 ... is about $621 million,” she said, and staff later clarified that roughly $500 million of that is slated for operations and maintenance, leaving a smaller pool for capacity projects that impact fees can help match with federal and state funds.
Committee members asked how much the county actually collects each year in impact fees. Likenberger replied that “the impact fee amounts that we collect every year is probably around $3 million,” a figure several members used to frame the scale of the program during the discussion.
The presentation explained methodology (Institute for Traffic Engineers trip-generation rates, micro-simulation for intersection treatments) and described an existing county practice of applying a 50% discount to the gross impact-fee schedule. Likenberger said staff will present both discounted and non-discounted schedules at the hearing and proposed updates to the discount program to focus credits on verifiable trip reductions and make administration less subjective.
The committee voted to establish the public hearing date for the draft CRIT and impact-fee documents (hearing planned Oct. 19, 4–6 p.m., auditorium), allowing the materials to be displayed and public comment to be taken before the county board considers policy decisions such as any change to the discount schedule.
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