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Indian River County I Impact Fee Update Study Department of Transportation (FDOT) to conduct studies on "mobility fees," which were completed in 2010. • HB 7207 in 2011: Required a dollar-for-dollar credit, for purposes of concurrency compliance, for impact fees paid and other concurrency mitigation required. The payment must be reduced by the percentage share the project's traffic represents of the added capacity of the selected improvement (up to a maximum of 20% or to an amount specified by ordinance, whichever results in a higher credit). The courts have not yet taken up the issue of whether a local government may still charge an impact/mobility fee in lieu of proportionate share if the impact/mobility fee is higher that the calculated proportionate share contribution. • HB 319 in 2013: Applied mostly to concurrency management authorities, but also encouraged local governments to adopt alternative mobility systems using a series of tools identified in section 3180(5)(f), Florida Statutes, including: 1. Adoption of long-term strategies to facilitate development patterns that support multimodal solutions, including urban design, and appropriate land use mixes, including intensity and density. 2. Adoption of an area-wide level of service not dependent on any single road segment function. 3. Exempting or discounting impacts of locally desired development, such as development in urban areas, redevelopment, job creation, and mixed use on the transportation system. 4. Assigning secondary priority to vehicle mobility and primary priority to ensuring a safe, comfortable, and attractive pedestrian environment, with convenient interconnection to transit. 5. Establishing multimodal level of service standards that rely primarily on non- vehicular modes of transportation where existing or planned community design will provide adequate level of mobility. 6. Reducing impact fees or local access fees to promote development within urban areas, multimodal transportation districts, and a balance of mixed-use development in certain areas or districts, or for affordable or workforce housing. Also, under HB 319, a mobility fee funding system expressly must comply with the dual rational nexus test applicable to traditional impact fees. Furthermore, any mobility fee revenues collected must be used to implement the local government's plan, which served Tindale-Oliver&Associates, Inc. Indian River County September 2014 4 Impact Fee Update Study