HomeMy WebLinkAbout18-1763 Impact Fee Amendment to Municipal CodeCITY OF MERIDIAN ORDINANCE NO. 18-1763
BY THE CITY COUNCIL: BERNT, BORTON, CAVENER,
LITTLE ROBERTS, MILAM, PALMER
AN ORDINANCE TO AMEND THE MUNICIPAL CODE OF THE CITY OF
MERIDIAN, COUNTY OF ADA, STATE OF IDAHO, AMENDING TITLE 10, CHAPTER 7,
SECTION 12(E)(2), MERIDIAN CITY CODE, KNOWN AS THE MERIDIAN IMPACT FEE
ORDINANCE FEE SCHEDULE; TO PROVIDE FOR AN AMENDMENT TO THE POLICE,
FIRE, AND PARKS AND RECREATION IWACT FEE SCHEDULES; AND PROVIDING AN
EFFECTIVE DATE.
WHEREAS, pursuant to the authority granted in Section 67-8201, et seq., Idaho Code, the
City of Meridian ("the City") may impose Impact Fees to fund expenditures by the City Police
Department, the City Fire Department and the City Parks and Recreation Department on Capital
Improvements needed to serve new growth and development; and
WHEREAS, on the I Ith day of March, 2014 The City Council of the City of Meridian adopted the
current Impact Fee Schedule as Ordinance 14-1596; and,
WHEREAS, the Impact Fees adopted by Ordinance 14-1596 were less than the maximum
allowable fee under the City's currently adopted methodology and Capital Improvements Plan,
which necessitates the use of general fund revenue or other income sources to fund the difference
between the maximum allowable fee and the adopted fee; and
WHEREAS, the Development Impact Fee Advisory Committee met with the Meridian City
Council on December 12, 2017 and recommended that the City Council consider adopting the
maximum allowable fee under the City's currently adopted methodology and Capital Improvements
Plan; and
WHEREAS, after due and timely notice, the City Council held a public hearing on January
16, 2018 to discuss, review and hear public comments on the proposed amendments to the Impact
Fee Schedule as recommended by the Development Impact Fee Committee; and
WHEREAS, based upon the previously adopted Capital Improvements Plan, the testimony at
the public hearing, and a review of all of the facts and circumstances, in the reasonable judgment of
the City Council, the police, fire, and parks and recreation Impact Fees hereby established are at
levels no greater than necessary to defray the cost of Capital Improvements directly related to the
categories of residential and nonresidential land Development listed herein; and
WHEREAS, in adopting the police, fire, and parks and recreation Capital
Improvements Impact Fees, the City Council intends and has determined that such Impact Fees are
designed to and do address Capital Improvements needs that are brought about by new growth and
development, which needs are separate and distinct from the impacts and needs addressed by other
requirements of the City's codes and ordinances, and in no circumstance do the Impact Fees set forth
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herein address the same subjects as other requirements of the City's codes and ordinances for site
specific dedications or improvements; and
WHEREAS, the police, fire, and parks and recreation Impact Fees, as revised, to be imposed on
new growth and development will be and are hereby legislatively adopted, will be generally applicable
to a broad class of property and are intended to defray the projected impacts on such Capital
Improvements caused by new growth and development as required by law; and
WHEREAS, the Impact Fees adopted hereby shall be collected and accounted for in
accordance with Section 67-8201, et seq., Idaho Code; and
WHEREAS, the Impact Fees adopted by this Ordinance are fair and rational, charge new
growth and development according to new growth and development's impact on the City's police,
fire, and parks and recreation Public Facilities and benefit those who pay Impact Fees in a tangible
way.
BE IT ORDAINED, BY THE MAYOR AND CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
MERIDIAN, COUNTY OF ADA, STATE OF IDAHO:
Section 1. The foregoing recitals are hereby affirmed and incorporated herein by this reference
as findings of the City Council, along with the recitals in Ordinance 14-1596 pertaining to the
adoption of the current Impact Fee Capital Improvements Plan.
Section 2. That Title 10, Chapter 7, Section 12(E)(2) of the Meridian City Code is amended in
part as follows:
10-7-12: ADDITIONAL PROVISIONS:
E. 2. Except for such impact fee as may be calculated, paid and accepted pursuant to an
independent impact fee calculation study, the amount of each impact fee shall be as follows
effective the 1st day of March, 2018:
Police impact fee schedule:
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Residential — Single Family
Residential - Multifamily
$135.727$223.00per
$135.72 $223.00
dwelling unit
Nonresidential -07.12
[per square foot
Fire impact fee schedule:
Residential — Single Family
Residential - Multifamily
X07 $681.00
Q `� $681.00
per dwelling unit
Nonresidential
.35
per square foot
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Parks impact fee schedule:
Residential — Single Family
Residential - Multifamily
Nonresidential
$1,2 $1,113.00
$767.52 $1,113.00
n/a
Flotal fees.
Residential — Single Family $1,''�r$2,017.00
Residential - Multifamily $1,^.,.T454.31 $2,017.00
Nonresidential
.36 .47
per dwelling unit
per dwelling unit
per square foot
Section 3: That all other provisions of Title 10, Chapter 7 remain unchanged.
Section 4: This Fee Schedule shall be in effect on the V day of March, 2018, which shall be no
sooner than thirty (3 0) days after adoption and publication of this Ordinance.
PASSED by the City Council of the City of Meridian, Idaho, this of
56,06-ry,2018.
APPROVED by the Mayor of the City of Meridian, Idaho, this % day of
56'VL9-. ' 2018.
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STATE OF IDAHO )
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Sharon Jessen
of Nampa, Canyon County, Idaho, being
first duly sworn, deposes and says:
1. That I am a citizen of the United States,
and at all times hereinafter mentioned
was over the age of eighteen years, and
not a party to the above entitled action.
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published in the City of Meridian, in the
County of Ada, State of Idaho; that
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Ada, and in the vicinity of
Meridian, and has been
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01/26/2018
STATE OF IDAH
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On this 26th day of January in the year of
2018 before me a Notary Public, personally appeared.
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