REPORT TO THE CITY COUNCIL
February 27, 2020
FROM: SCOTT L. MOZIER, PE, Director
Public Works Department
BY: ANDREW J. BENELLI, PE, City Engineer / Assistant Director
Public Works Department, Traffic Operations and Planning
SUBJECT
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HEARING to consider adoption of the 553rd Amendment to the Master Fee Schedule Resolution No. 80-420 to Increase Copper River Impact Fees for Interior Collector Roadways and decrease Copper River Impact fees for Major Roadway Infrastructure and Sewer Backbone Facilities; Acceptance and Adoption of the Public Review Draft Fee Study Update for Copper River Ranch (District 6):
1. ***RESOLUTION - 553rd Amendment to the Master Fee Schedule Resolution No. 80-420 to adjust Copper River Ranch Impact Fees. (Subject to Mayor's veto)
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RECOMMENDATIONS
Staff recommends the Council adopt the 553rd Amendment to the Master Fee Schedule, Resolution No. 80-420, to increase the Copper River Ranch Impact Fees for Interior Collector Roadways, and to decrease the Copper River Impact Fees for Major Roadway Infrastructure and Sewer Backbone Facilities.
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
Copper River Ranch is a master planned development located on north of Copper Avenue, between Friant Road and Willow Avenue. New homes, multi-family units and commercial buildings constructed in Copper River pay all of the citywide impact fees and also pay fees that are unique to the master planned community. The fees that are collected are used to mitigate impacts from new development, and serve to provide reimbursement to the master developer (Assemi Group, Inc.) for street and sewer improvements. The revenue from these fees cannot legally be used outside of the master planned development. The master developers support keeping these fees high enough to fully reimburse them for true cost of the infrastructure construction. The Assemi Group hired QK Engineering & Planning to update the Nexus study and to determine the fair and correct fees. The nexus study...
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