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any way, and Director Davis answered yes. Staff did comparisons of trip generation rates both nationwide and in neighboring counties. The ITE rate for single-family detached dwellings is approximately 10.06 trips per dwelling unit, and the rate being proposed today is 8.93, which is about 1.1 trips less than the national average. Director Davis noted that the Planning Dept. found in their comparison study that St. Lucie County is using a 9.2 trip rate and Martin County is using 9.87. Director Davis felt that our residential rates have been conservative and that we have tried to adopt a rate that is reasonable. Commissioner Bird asked if we have slanted the proposed impact fee rates on the low side for the residential and are tending to ask commercial/industrial to pick up the slack, and Director Davis answered no. He felt we are asking them to pay their fair share, and emphasized that we did not use the highest ITE range and did not try to inflate the trip generation rates for any of the commercial, office or industrial uses in the fee table. Chairman Scurlock felt that if we adopt this ordinance today, we need to have an implementation schedule that is very clearly defined as he was concerned about people rushing in and wanting to prepay their impact fees before the increases go into effect. Commissioner Eggert noted that the recommendation is for an effective date of October 14, 1988. Director Keating explained that the impact fees are paid at the time they apply for a building permit. He believed the biggest problem will be with approved projects that are to be phased in over a number of years and which have priced their product based on the impact fees in effect now. Commissioner Bowman did not know how we are going to charge more for those people who already are in the process of site plan approval and have not been issued building permits as yet, and Commissioner Bird asked if we could delay the effective date. 36 SEP 131988 Boa 74 PnI 169 � J