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revise the credit component of the fee formula as appropriate to ensure that rate payers <br /> are not paying twice for the same improvement. <br /> 3.1.13 Consolidating Land Use Categories <br /> Under this alternative, the County may combine two or more non-residential land use <br /> categories into a new, lower-fee category with the impact fee rate for the new <br /> consolidated category at the level of the use with the lowest rate. CONSULTANT shall <br /> review the county's land use categories and identify any consolidation opportunities that <br /> exist within those categories. <br /> 3.1.0 Other Alternatives <br /> CONSULTANT may identify any other approach or combination of approaches that <br /> achieves the project's stated purpose of identifying a legally-defensible impact fee <br /> program that reduces commercial impact fees for new and expanding businesses and <br /> minimizes or avoids increases to non-commercial impact fees. <br /> Upon completion of the development of alternatives for lowering impact fees, CONSULTANT <br /> shall prepare Technical Memorandum #3 (TM3), commercial Impact Fee Reduction Alternatives <br /> Report. The report shall present an analysis of the alternatives in a concise format and include a <br /> technical, financial, and legal summary of each alternative. The CONSULTANT shall also <br /> attend one public meeting to discuss the alternatives contained in TM3 and modify TM3, as <br /> appropriate. <br /> TASK 3.2 ADMINISTRATION REVIEW AND ADMINISTRATION FEE UPDATE <br /> CONSULTANT shall review current procedures and estimate staff time associated with <br /> administering the existing traffic impact fee program. Based on that review, CONSULTANT <br /> shall determine the annual costs for administering the impact fee program and shall prepare an <br /> update of the administration fees as appropriate. That update shall comply with applicable state <br /> requirements for establishing impact fee administrative charges. <br /> TASK 3.3 FEE SCHEDULE PREPARATION <br /> For each facility/service category, CONSULTANT shall coordinate with COUNTY staff to <br /> prepare updated fee schedules. The updated schedules must reflect the preferred alternative or <br /> combination of alternatives for non-residential impact fee reduction selected by COUNTY. The <br /> revised fee schedules will incorporate all relevant updated land acquisition and construction cost <br /> data; updated impact fee credit data (based on recent local option sales tax expenditure trends); <br /> and updated independent variable data, including the average cost per lane mile variable data, as <br /> described in Task 1. This task may entail revised impact fee formulas, where revision of those <br /> formulas have been proposed by CONSULTANT and found acceptable to the COUNTY. <br /> 6 110 <br />