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Development Impact Fees
Many counties, cities and towns have one standardized
impact fee schedule that covers the entire municipality. Although
this type of impact fee structure has many advantages, including
simplicity of calculation and ease of collection, it does lead to
a relatively unfair distribution of infrastructure costs that promotes
development in areas without existing infrastructure and penalizes
development in areas that have better access to existing facilities.
The City acknowledges that,
because of the large size of Phoenix, several fee areas are needed to
more fairly allocate future capital facility costs. As a result, there
are two Infrastructure-Financing Plans; Southern & Northern and
six impact fee areas in place as of March 16, 2004. Some of the fee
areas have been subdivided to better allocate specific types of facility
costs. By assessing the fees on the basis of a specific fee area, or
even sub-fee area, the City can better ensure that new development is
only paying for capital facilities that it needs and will benefit from.
New infrastructure-financing
plans combine fee areas, reducing the number of different plans in production.
Each of these plans utilizes updated and relatively consistent methods
to project future capital facility costs and offsets. Fees are collected
for capital facility needs associated with equipment repair, fire, libraries,
major streets and bridges, parks, police, solid waste, wastewater and
water. Fees are also charged for storm drainage facilities where that
type of infrastructure is required and where the costs of necessary
infrastructure have been identified. These new plans replace a number
of older plans that had been approved by Council between 1988 and 2001.
The transition to the new, standardized plans is now complete.
Each of the current two Infrastructure-Financing
Plans in Phoenix has its own fee structure. Although the fee area
boundaries generally correspond to the boundaries of the village
after which the fee area is named, there are some differences. The
Estrella impact fee area includes only those portions of the Estrella
village west of 43rd Avenue, while the Deer Valley impact fee area
includes only the northernmost portion of the Deer Valley village.
The North Gateway impact fee area contains not only those portions
of the North Gateway village that are within the City's boundaries,
but also County lands north of Cloud Road that will eventually be
part of the City. The Laveen impact fee area includes a part of
the South Mountain village east of 27th Avenue.
View a map of the six main fee areas
in Phoenix.
Last modified on
12/28/2007 16:03:06
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