City officials discussed a comprehensive review of development fees—including traffic impact fees, system development charges, and building permit fees—to fund major infrastructure projects outlined in the city's comprehensive plan. They emphasized the need to balance raising revenue for these costly system upgrades with remaining regionally competitive so that fee increases do not stall new building development. To mitigate potential negative impacts on developers, officials proposed tools such as phased fee increases, caps, and specific exemptions for affordable housing and transit-oriented development.
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City Council Workshops · Sep 14, 2026 · 12:06–12:35 · Watch on CVTV ↗
Keywords: comprehensive plan building permits affordable housing traffic impact infrastructure
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10:57 what's the key drivers in these two different project types what's you know so we have a cost of development at 2.5 versus 3.3 or i've said he's changed through three of 2620 so help me understand differences there um yeah yeah each each fee is uh has a slightly different calculation um park impact fees are based on a fee per unit um traffic impact fees are based on the number of trips average daily trips that are generated by a project and sometimes that is dependent on whether there is steve can get into more detail on this but if there's pass-by traffic then maybe there are some adjustments that are made to
11:55 to that calculation water and sewer sdcs i believe are based on the size of the water meter and permit review fees again that's that's several subcategories of fees building permits are based on the valuation of the project so there's a calculation that uses that as the primary driver and land use fees is are based on number of units or and possibly combined with square footage so each each one has sort of a different formula but generally speaking on it per unit basis for residential larger projects will have lower per unit costs because they spread the fees over you know there's a certain got initial threshold and then they the more units you have you spread it over more units so that's that's why the percentage and the per unit
12:53 the amount goes down is because it's because it's a larger project and that's going to be the case with with with fees there's a kind of a fixed starting point of fees so and and does the the uh so one is mixed use so there's a retail component we'll call it a retail component to that does that end up diluting it as well yes it can okay thank you and the zero on project two for sewer not all projects have um have uh
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direct keyword 12:06–12:35 comprehensive plan, building permits, affordable housing, traffic impact, infrastructure
ut if there's pass-by traffic then maybe there are some adjustments that are made to to that calculation water and sewer sdcs i believe are based on the size of the water meter and permit review fees again that's that's several subcategories of fees building permits are based on the valuation of the project so there's a calculation that uses that as the primary driver and land use fees is are based on number of units or and possibly combined with square footage so each each one has sort of a dif