This section contains additional provisions pertaining to roadway impact fees.
(A) (1) The fees are based on the analysis contained in the Roadway Impact Fee Study prepared for the city in 2019, or on a subsequent similar study. That analysis ensures that the fees charge only for the cost of major roadway system improvements attributable to new development.
(2) Fee schedule. The following schedule of roadway impact fees shall be assessed on all new development in the city.
Land Use Type | Unit | Fee per Unit (33% - Effective July 1, 2019) | Fee per Unit (100% - Effective July 1, 2020) |
Single-Family Detached | Dwelling | $1,006 | $3,048 |
Multi Family | Dwelling | $780 | $2,364 |
Mobile Home Park | Pad | $533 | $1,614 |
Senior Adult Housing, Detached | Dwelling | $453 | $1,374 |
Senior Adult Housing, Attached | Dwelling | $394 | $1,194 |
Golf Course | Hole | $289 | $875 |
Hotel/Motel | Room | $624 | $1,891 |
Retail/Commercial/ Shopping Center | 1,000 sf | $1,568 | $4,753 |
Restaurant, Standard | 1,000 sf | $3,009 | $9,118 |
Restaurant, Drive- Through | 1,000 sf | $6,676 | $20,229 |
Gas Station w/Convenience Mkt. | 1,000 sf | $2,590 | $7,848 |
Office/Institutional | 1,000 sf | $1,188 | $3,599 |
Elementary/Secondary School | 1,000 sf | $369 | $1,117 |
Community College | 1,000 sf | $831 | $2,517 |
Day Care Center | 1,000 sf | $979 | $2,966 |
Hospital | 1,000 sf | $919 | $2,784 |
Nursing Home | 1,000 sf | $560 | $1,698 |
Place of Worship | 1,000 sf | $594 | $1,800 |
Industrial | 1,000 sf | $446 | $1,350 |
Warehouse | 1,000 sf | $230 | $697 |
Mini-warehouse | 1,000 sf | $199 | $602 |
(3) Periodic review and update. The Board of Mayor and Aldermen shall review the roadway impact fee schedule at least every three years or on a sooner basis as deemed necessary by the Board of Mayor and Aldermen.
(4) Automatic indexing for inflation. The fees shown in subsection (A)(2) above shall be adjusted to account for construction cost inflation on January 1 following each year in which the fees were not comprehensively updated based on a new impact fee study. The existing fees will be multiplied by the ratio of the Engineering News-Record Construction Cost Index for the most recent month for which the index is available to the index for the same month of the previous year. The adjusted fee schedule will be posted on the city’s web site and made publicly available by December 1 and will become effective on January 1.
(5) Repeal or reduction. In the event that a proposal is presented to eliminate roadway impact
fees or reduce the roadway impact fee schedule below an amount based on capital improvement needs as determined by the Board of Mayor and Aldermen, an amendment to this chapter shall have to pass by a two-thirds vote to repeal or significantly reduce roadway impact fees.
(B) Interpretation of fee schedule.
(1) Residential development shall be assessed based on the number and type of dwelling units. Non-residential development shall be assessed based on the gross floor area and type of land use.
(2) The following definitions shall be used to classify proposed land uses into the categories included in the roadway impact fee schedule. For proposed land uses that cannot be classified into one of the fee schedule categories, the fee shall be assessed using the most similar category based on trip generation or other relevant information.
DAY CARE CENTER. A facility or establishment that provides care, protection and supervision for six or more children unrelated to the operator and which receives a payment, fee or grant for any of the children receiving care, whether or not operated for profit. The term does not include public or nonpublic schools.
ELEMENTARY/SECONDARY SCHOOL. A school offering an elementary through high school curriculum.
GAS STATION WITH CONVENIENCE MARKET. An establishment offering the sale of motor fuels and convenience items to motorists.
GOLF COURSE. A golf course that is not restricted primarily for use by residents of a residential development of which it is a part, including commercial uses such as pro shop or bar that are designed primarily to serve golfers on the site.
HOSPITAL. An establishment primarily engaged in providing medical, surgical, or skilled nursing care to persons, including overnight or longer stays by patients.
HOTEL/MOTEL. A building or group of buildings on the same premises and under single control, consisting of sleeping rooms kept, used, maintained or advertised as, or held out to the public to be, a place where sleeping accommodations are supplied for pay to transient guests or tenants. This land use category includes rooming houses, boardinghouses, and bed and breakfast establishments.
INDUSTRIAL. An establishment primarily engaged in the fabrication, assembly or processing of goods. Typical uses include manufacturing plants, industrial parks, research and development laboratories, welding shops, wholesale bakeries, dry cleaning plants, and bottling works.
MINI-WAREHOUSE. An enclosed storage facility containing independent, fully enclosed bays that are leased to persons for storage of their household goods or personal property.
MOBILE HOME/RV PARK. A parcel (or portion thereof) or abutting parcels of land designed, used or intended to be used to accommodate two or more occupied mobile homes or recreational vehicles, with necessary utilities, vehicular pathways, and concrete pads or vehicle stands.
MULTI-FAMILY. A building containing two or more dwelling units. It includes duplexes, apartments, residential condominiums, townhouses, and timeshares.
NURSING HOME. An establishment primarily engaged in providing limited health care, nursing and health-related personal care but not continuous nursing services.
OFFICE/INSTITUTIONAL. A general office, medical office or public/institutional use, as hereby defined.
1. GENERAL OFFICE. A building exclusively containing establishments providing executive, management, administrative, financial, or non-medical professional services, and which may include ancillary services for office workers, such as a restaurant, coffee shop, newspaper or candy stand, or child care facilities. It may be the upper floors of a multi-story office building with ground floor retail uses. Typical uses include banks without drive-in facilities, real estate, insurance, property
management, investment, employment, travel, advertising, secretarial, data processing, telephone answering, telephone marketing, music, radio and television recording and broadcasting studios, professional or consulting services in the fields of law, architecture, design, engineering, accounting and similar professions, interior decorating consulting services, and business offices of private companies, utility companies, trade associations, unions and nonprofit organizations. This category does not include an administrative office that is ancillary to a principal commercial or industrial use.
2. MEDICAL OFFICE. A building primarily used for the examination and/or treatment of patients on an outpatient basis (with no overnight stays by patients) by health professionals, and which may include ancillary services for medical office workers or a medical laboratory to the extent necessary to carry out diagnostic services for the medical office’s patients. It includes the use of a site primarily for the provision of medical care and treatment of animals, which may include ancillary boarding facilities.
3. PUBLIC/INSTITUTIONAL. A governmental, quasi-public or institutional use, or a non-profit recreational use, not located in a shopping center or separately listed in the impact fee schedule. Typical uses include higher education institutions, city halls, courthouses, post offices, jails, libraries, museums, military bases, airports, bus stations, fraternal lodges, parks and playgrounds. It also includes bus terminals, fraternal clubs, adult day care centers, college dormitories, and prisons.
PLACE OF WORSHIP. A structure designed primarily for accommodating an assembly of people for the purpose of religious worship, including related religious instruction for 100 or fewer children during the week and other related functions.
RESTAURANT, DRIVE-THROUGH. A stand-alone establishment, not located in a shopping center but may be located on an out-parcel, that sells meals prepared on site, and provides drive-through or drive-in service.
RESTAURANT, STANDARD. A stand-alone establishment, not located in a shopping center but may be located on an out-parcel, that sells meals prepared on site, and does not provide drive-through or drive-in service.
RETAIL/COMMERCIAL/SHOPPING CENTER. An integrated group of commercial establishments planned, developed, owned or managed as a unit, or a free-standing retail or commercial use not otherwise listed in the impact fee schedule. Uses located on a shopping center out- parcel are considered free-standing for the purposes of this definition. A retail or commercial use shall mean the use of a building or structure primarily for the sale to the public of nonprofessional services, or goods or foods that have not been made, assembled or otherwise changed in ways generally associated with manufacturing or basic food processing in the same building or structure. This category includes but is not limited to all uses located in shopping centers and the following free-standing uses:
1. Amusement park;
2. Auto parts store;
3. Auto wrecking yard;
4. Automobile repair;
5. Bank without drive-through facilities;
6. Bar and cocktail lounge;
7. Camera shop;
8. Car wash;
9. Convenience food and beverage store without gas pumps;
10. Department store;
11. Florist shop;
12. Food store;
13. Grocery;
14. Hardware store;
15. Health or fitness club;
16. Hobby, toy and game shop;
17. Junkyard;
18. Laundromat;
19. Laundry or dry cleaning;
20. Lawn and garden supply store;
21. Massage establishment;
22. Music store;
23. Newsstand;
24. Nightclub;
25. Racetrack;
26. Recreation facility, commercial;
27. Rental establishment;
28. Repair shop, including auto repair;
29. School, commercial;
30. Specialty retail shop;
31. Supermarket;
32. Theater, indoor (including movie theater);
33. Used merchandise store;
34. Variety store; and
35. Vehicle and equipment dealer.
SINGLE-FAMILY DETACHED. A building containing only one dwelling unit, including a mobile home not located in a mobile home park.
WAREHOUSE. An establishment primarily engaged in the display, storage and sale of goods to other firms for resale, as well as activities involving significant movement and storage of products or equipment. Typical uses include wholesale distributors, storage warehouses, trucking terminals, moving and storage firms, recycling facilities, trucking and shipping operations and major mail processing centers.
(C) Expenditure of impact fees. Roadway impact fees collected pursuant to this chapter shall be limited to capacity improvements on the major roadway system. The major roadway system is defined as roads classified as arterials in the city’s Major Thoroughfare Plan. Capacity improvements include but are not limited to new roads, road widening projects, intersection improvements, and signalization, as well as improvements such as installation of sidewalks, curb and gutter, drainage, bridges, landscaping and other elements needed to complete the roadway cross-section. Such expenditures shall not include costs of rights-of-way or land acquisition, but may include costs for design, preliminary engineering, construction engineering and inspection, and similar elements required for the project. Impact fee revenue may also be used to retire debt attributable to eligible cost components.
(Ord. 15-04, passed 12-21-2015; Ord. 19-11A, passed 4-15-2019)