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Residential and Non -Residential Fee Schedule Changes The Consultant has performed all tasks necessary to update the impact fee schedules for residential uses and high -cube automated warehouse use; has applied the "Affordable Growth" methodology to reduce or minimally increase residential impact fees; and has determined that the "Staff Scenario" based upon the Affordable Growth methodology is technically sound and warranted. Consequently, the Board has a reasonable basis for determining that the Consultant's update and Affordable Growth/Staff Scenario methodology as applied to the non-residential and residential impact fees are acceptable. In addition, the School Board has conducted a public workshop and special meeting at which the Consultant and the public participated, and has voted 5-0 to request that the BCC adopt the recommended school impact fees. Those fees are incorporated into the recommended residential impact fees contained in the attached fee schedules. Included in the schedules is the new non-residential fee category for high cube (automated) warehouse uses (ITE Land Use Code 152). That new use category has a lower transportation impact fee per square foot of new construction than does a conventional warehouse. The lower fee is based on the lower trip generation characteristics of the use which extensively uses automation, resulting in a smaller number of employees and fewer trips generated per square foot of building area. Impact Fee Ordinance (Title X) Modifications As stated by the Consultant, level of service (LOS) standards for public goods and services are often expressed in terms of units of service per resident (since there is an existing inventory of classrooms, jail beds, library books that can easily be divided by a number of residents to yield a standard). According to the Consultant, each of these units of service has a replacement cost and a value associated with it as well. Therefore, for impact fee calculation purposes, LOS can just as easily be expressed in terms of asset valuation per resident. Since an asset valuation approach more accurately reflects the combination of all capital assets needed to provide the public good, the Consultant has recommended that the County adopt a LOS standard for impact fee calculation purposes for each fee category expressed in terms of asset valuation. Those changes, consistent with the Consultant's final report, appear in the proposed impact fee ordinance modifications on pages 13 — 27 of the proposed text changes (see attachment to Attachment 5). Throughout development of the impact fee update, the Board and members of the public expressed a desire to consider changes to certain administrative aspects of the impact fee program. Changes discussed with the Board - and decided at the June 11 BCC workshop have been included in the proposed ordinance. Those include clarifying the process for impact fee -related appeals and individual assessments, and addressing impact fee determinations for improvements to older structures such as a proposal to enclose a decades old roofed vehicle sales structure (the Linus Cadillac example). With respect to appeals and individual assessments, the proposed ordinance modifications clarify that all impact fee related determinations, including individual assessments, are made by Community Development Director decisions and are appealable following the County Code Chapter 100 process. That process requires appeals of Community Development Director decisions to be heard by the County Administrator and decisions of the County Administrator to be heard by the Board of County Commissioners. In addition, proposed modifications clarify that an individual assessment can be requested for any and all impact fee program areas (all 9 areas). With respect to improvements to older structures, the ordinance proposes a new exemption from an impact fee assessment. That exemption will apply if it is determined that an improvement ofa structure in existence prior to adoption of impact fees (March 1, 1986) will not result in a measureable increase in traffic impacts. As structured, the proposed exemption is narrow in scope, is tied to measurable impacts, promotes renovation of older structures built before impact fee requirements were a development factor, and would follow the previously described appeal process that allows for ultimate review by the Board of County Commissioners. F.\Community DevelopmenNmpact Fee\2014- IF Study\BCC staff report for adopting non-residential Ws October 14. doc 3 96