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Indian River County 1 Impact Fee Update Study <br />use mixes, including intensity and density. <br />2. Adoption of an area -wide level of service not dependent on any single road <br />segment function. <br />3. Exempting or discounting impacts of locally desired development, such as <br />development in urban areas, redevelopment, job creation, and mixed use on <br />the transportation system. <br />4. Assigning secondary priority to vehicle mobility and primary priority to <br />ensuring a safe, comfortable, and attractive pedestrian environment, with <br />convenient interconnection to transit. <br />5. Establishing multimodal level of service standards that rely primarily on non- <br />vehicular modes of transportation where existing or planned community <br />design will provide adequate level of mobility. <br />6. Reducing impact fees or local access fees to promote development within <br />urban areas, multimodal transportation districts, and a balance of mixed-use <br />development in certain areas or districts, or for affordable or workforce <br />housing. <br />Also, under HB 319, a mobility fee funding system expressly must comply with the dual <br />rational nexus test applicable to traditional impact fees. Furthermore, any mobility fee <br />revenues collected must be used to implement the local government's plan, which served <br />as the basis for the fee. Finally, under HB 319, an alternative mobility system, that is not <br />mobility fee-based, must not impose upon new development any responsibility for funding <br />an existing transportation deficiency. <br />At this time, Indian River County is not interested in implementing a mobility fee primarily <br />due to the suburban nature of the county. Instead, the County is using the affordable <br />growth approach to reduce fees for non-residential land uses to accomplish its economic <br />development goals. <br />The following paragraphs provide further detail on the generally applicable legal standards <br />applicable here. <br />Impact Fee Definition <br />• An impact fee is a one-time capital charge levied against new development. <br />• An impact fee is designed to cover the portion of the capital costs of infrastructure <br />capacity consumed by new development. <br />Tindale -Oliver & Associates, Inc. Indian River County <br />June 2014 5 Impact Fee Update Study <br />kip <br />