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• <br />Indian River County 1 Impact Fee Update Study <br />4. Assigning secondary priority to vehicle mobility and primary priority to <br />ensuring a safe, comfortable, and attractive pedestrian environment, with <br />convenient interconnection to transit. <br />5. Establishing multimodal level of service standards that rely primarily on non- <br />vehicular modes of transportation where existing or planned community <br />design will provide adequate level of mobility. <br />6. Reducing impact fees or local access fees to promote development within <br />urban areas, multimodal transportation districts, and a balance of mixed-use <br />development in certain areas or districts,`.or'for affordable or workforce <br />housing. ; <br />Also, under HB 319, a mobility fee funding system expressly 'must comply with the dual <br />rational nexus test applicable to traditional impact fees. Furthermore, any mobility fee <br />revenues collected must be used to implement -.the local government's plan, which served <br />as the basis for the fee. Finally, under HB 319,'an°alternative mobility system, that is not <br />mobility fee-based, must not impose _upon new development any responsibility for funding <br />an existing transportation deficiency. '.. <br />The following paragraphs_ provide further', detail on`rthe generally applicable legal standards <br />applicable here. <br />Impact Fee Definition <br />• , 'An.impact fee is a orie-time capitalcharge levied against new development. <br />• An impact fee is designed to.cover the' portion of the capital costs of infrastructure <br />capacity consumed by new development. <br />• The principle purpose of an impact fee is to assist in funding the implementation of <br />projects'.identified in? the Capital Improvements Element (CIE) and other capital <br />improvement programs for the respective facility/service categories. <br />Impact Fee vs. Tax <br />• An impact fee is generally regarded as a regulatory function established as a <br />condition for improving property and is not established for the primary purpose of <br />generating revenue, as are taxes. <br />• Impact fee expenditures must convey a proportional benefit to the fee payer. <br />• An impact fee must be tied to a proportional need for new infrastructure capacity <br />created by new development. <br />Tindale -Oliver & Associates, Inc. Indian River County <br />January 2014 4 Impact Fee Update Study <br />