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• Said ordinance, if adopted, will establish new impact fee schedules for the unincorporated county and municipalities for residential uses and include a new non-residential use category for automated warehouses, based on the Consultant's final report. As proposed, in the unincorporated county, the impact fee schedules will slightly reduce residential impact fee rates for mobile homes (-7.9%) and most single-family categories (-5% and -8.2%), and will slightly increase impact fee rates for multi -family (+2.5%) and single-family under 1,500 sq. ft. (+0.5%). For the High Cube Automated Warehouse use impact fee category and rate, the proposed effective date is November 3, 2014. For all residential impact fee rates, some of which will be increasing, the proposed effective date of the ordinance is February 2, 2015. The proposed effective dates will satisfy state statutes which require a minimum of 90 days between adoption and the effective date of any impact fee increase. Application Fee Changes Attached is a resolution that will implement two fee changes desired by the Board (see attachment 6). One change is to eliminate the current $75 review fee for applications for refunds due to non -commencement. Another change relates to the review fee charged for an individual assessment request, which is currently a $2,000 flat fee. The proposed fee is a maximum of $2,000 or 5% of the assessed impact fee, whichever is less. For example, if a project is assessed a traffic impact fee of $20,000 under the adopted fee schedule, an individual assessment for the project's traffic impact fee would be $1,000 (5% of $20,000). The proposed sliding scale would benefit small development projects for which an individual assessment might be warranted. RECOMMENDATION Staff recommends that the Board of County Commissioners: 1. Accept the Consultant's Impact Fee Update Final Report dated September 26, 2014; 2. Adopt the updated residential impact fee schedules and amended non-residential impact fee schedules to include the new high cube (automated) warehouse category, as contained in Appendix A of the attached ordinance; and 3. Adopt the proposed modifications to Title X, Impact Fee Ordinance Changes, as contained in Attachment #1 of the attached ordinance; and 4. Adopt the attached resolution to eliminate and reduce certain impact fee related application review fees. ATTACHMENTS 1) Minutes from the June 11, 2014, BCC Impact Fee Workshop 2) September 15, 2014 Letter from the Indian River County School District 3) Minutes of the September 11, 2014 Special School Board Meeting 4) Executive Summary of the Indian River County Impact Fee Study Final Report dated September 26, 2014 5) Proposed Impact Fee Ordinance Modifications and Fee Schedules for the Unincorporated County and Municipalities 6) Application Fee Resolution APPROVED AGENDA ITEM: FOR: October 14, 2014 BY: Indian River Co, Approved Date Admin. / Legal iuj eit4lLA Budget A t o f Dept. 7ai,y Risk Mgr. F:\Community Development\Impact Fee\20I4- IF Study\BCC. staff report for adopting non-residential IFs October 14.doc 4 97