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Development Impact Fees
The Planning Department is responsible for preparation
of the Infrastructure-Financing Plans and associated documents.
A large amount of information is collected, interpreted and quantified
to produce the plans. The Planning Department only produces a portion
of the information used in the process, however, and relies on other
departments and consultants for most of the basic information on
the types of infrastructure needed in specific areas and the cost
of putting this infrastructure in place. The Planning Department
is responsible for preparing all projections, calculating total
infrastructure costs, developing estimates of tax offsets for both
existing and future development, and allocating these costs and
offsets across the various fee areas and sub-fee areas. The Planning
Department also prepares the final documents and all mapping used
in the documents.
The Planning Department is responsible for establishing
the format of the plans and managing the data collection and analysis
processes, but requires assistance from other departments in a wide
range of areas. Usually this assistance comes in the form of provision
of data on existing and future facilities, facility standards, facility
costs and demand for facilities. The departments must provide inventories
of existing and future infrastructure, as well as descriptions of,
and justification for, current City standards. Recent bid information
on infrastructure projects, or estimates of infrastructure costs,
are often also provided. When recent information on infrastructure
costs is not available, the Planning Department will often commission
studies by engineering or other consultants to determine what the
cost of facilities would be in the current Phoenix construction
market and to estimate the demand for certain types of facilities
by different land uses.
For general impact fee Inquiries, please contact us.
The Development Services Department (DSD) is
responsible for calculating and collecting the fees. The Planning
Department, which shares responsibility for the impact fee program
with DSD, often assists with the calculation of fees in situations
where there are many variables or complex issues. The Planning Department
also assists DSD by providing maps, spreadsheets, tables and other
tools in addition to the Infrastructure-Financing Plans. However,
DSD is responsible for determining and then calculating fees before
issuing building permits. This responsibility is just one of many
associated with issuing development approvals. DSD also is responsible
for approving site plans, collecting developmental occupation and
other appropriate water-related fees and providing permits associated
with land-use changes and structural improvements. With the exception
of an administrative element of the impact fees, which are used
to offset administrative costs incurred by Development Services
and the Planning Department, all impact fees collected are deposited
into accounts that are available to City departments for capital
facilities expenditures.
For questions regarding a specific project and
fee calculations, please contact us.
Last modified on
06/12/2008 14:51:29
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