Lower Pinal County impact fees expected to drive development
By Melissa Johnson | Rose Law Group Reporter
Jordan Rose moderating the impact fees discussion at Pinal Partnership/Melissa Johnson
Impact fees are imposed by local governments on new development projects to pay for their direct impact on public facilities like roads, parks and fire service.
Pinal County impact fees were first studied in 2006 and implemented in early 2007 with an update in 2010. The county initiated another update in September 2014.
As outlined in a presentation at Friday’s Pinal Partnership breakfast by Pinal County Manager Greg Stanley, the board of supervisors in an October 2014 work session proposed specifics for the update that were followed by several months of multiple open houses and special meetings where feedback was provided for revisions.
In a November 2015 work session the board of supervisors asked that a fee appeal provision be put back in the ordinance and the fee schedule and ordinance be adopted at one time. The fee adoption and updated draft ordinance will next go to the board of supervisors on February 3, 2016.
View their presentations:
Impact Fees Breakfast -Dr. Dwayne Pierce Guthrie’s slides
