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MAYOR
Tammy de Weerd
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CITY COUNCIL MEMBERS
Keith Bird
Joseph W. Borton
Shaun Wardle
Charles M. Rountree
PARKS & RECREATION
DEPARTMENT
11 West Bower Street
Meridian, 1083642
Ph.# 888-3579/Fax 898-5501
Douglas Strong
Parks Director
To:
Mayor Tammy de Weerd and Meridian City Council Members
RECEIVED
From: Douglas Strong, hnpact Fee Administrator
AUGt ? 20flh
Re: Impact Fee Recommendations
City of Meridian
City Clerk Office
Date: August 29,2006
GENERAL FINDINGS:
The Impact Fee Advisory Committee has met pursuant to City Ordinance and State Code.
After a number of public meetings, the Committee is prepared to make the following
recommendations regarding hnpact Fees for the City of Meridian for the next year. The
committee has reviewed all the information and reports from the City staff and BBC
Consulting (hereinafter "Consultant"). The Committee makes the following findings and
recommendations:
The Committee concurs with the direction by the City Council to evaluate and determine
the full cost recovery impact fee that could be imposed as allowed by state law to
maintain current levels of service for parks, police, and fire services. The Committee
concurs with the methodology and analysis prepared by the Consultant. The Committee
agrees that the full cost recovery (maximum allowable) fee is consistent with that
methodology, but the Committee believes that it is within their discretion to recommend
that a lesser fee be imposed.
PARKS IMPACT FEE:
The Committee believes that the City has not taken sufficient action in recent months and
years to incrementally increase the parks impact fee to keep pace with escalating land and
development costs which directly affect the fee. Although the parks impact fee was last
increased in May of 2005, there has been a significant increase in land and development
costs since that time. The Committee is recommending that the residential property
impact fee for parks be less than the full cost recovery fee to address the gap in time and
the significant land and development cost increases that have occurred since the last time
the fees were reviewed.
POLICE AND FIRE IMPACT FEES:
The Committee concurs that the new impact fees for police and fire facilities are justified
and supported by the information presented by the Consultant and the City staff.
However, the Committee is recommending that the residential property impact fee for
fire facilities be less than the full cost recovery fee.
The Committee concurs with the methodology and analysis of the Consultant regarding
the non-residential impact fees for fire and police facilities and is recommending that the
full non-residential property impact fees be imposed. However, in order to maintain the
integrity of the methodology, the Consultant has advised that if the Council imposes a
fire or police residential fee that is less than the full cost recovery fee, then the non-
residential fee should be reduced by an equal percentage to maintain consistency in
applying the methodology.
RECOMMENDED FEES:
The Committee believes that more frequent meetings of the Impact Fee Committee
should be included in any discussion of increasing impact fees beyond the current
recommendation. To make up the difference between the maximum and recommended
fees, the committee is encouraging the City Council to pursue alternative methods of
funding the Capital Improvements Plan.
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Police Impact Fee Schedule:
Residential
N on-Residential
Fire Impact Fee Schedule:
Residential
N on-Residential
Parks Impact Fee Schedule:
Residential
N on-Residential
Total Fees:
Residential
Non-Residential
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$85.00 per Dwelling Unit
$ 0.06 per square foot
$377.00 per Dwelling Unit
$ 0.25 per square foot
$300.00 per Dwelling Unit
$ 0.20 per square foot
$1,384.00 per Dwelling Unit
$ N/ A per square foot
$1,215.00 per Dwelling Unit
$ N/A per square foot
$1,846.00
$ 0.31
$1,600.00
$ 0.26 per square foot