TO: Honorable Mayor & Members of the North Port Commission
FROM: Peter D. Lear, CPA, CGMA, City Manager
TITLE: Ordinance No. 2019-06, second reading, amending the Code of the City of North Port, Florida, Chapter 58 - Planning and Development, Article III. - Impact Fees
Recommended Action
Adopt Ordinance No. 2019-06.
Background Information
Impact fees charge new development based upon the burden placed on City services and for a proportionate share of the cost of providing additional infrastructure available for use by new growth. Chapter 58 of the City Code establishes the City's impact fees.
The City's current impact fees are based on an Impact Fee Study prepared by Tindale-Oliver & Associates, Inc. and dated September 13, 2011. The City Commission previously determined that the methodology and
rates contained in the study were valid based upon the most recent localized data as required by Section 163.31801, Florida Statutes (the "Florida Impact Fee Act").
The current fees are charged at a rate of 42.5 percent of what the study justifies. At its February 7, 2019 meeting, the City Commission directed staff to draft an ordinance to assess impact fees at a rate of 75 percent of what the study justifies.
On May 28, 2019, the City Commission considered this ordinance at first reading and approved a motion to continue the ordinance to second reading on June 11, 2019. The following revisions have been made:
1. Correction of scrivener's errors;
2. Addition of a category for condominium/townhouse to the transportation impact fees;
3. Correction of a scrivener's error regarding inverted numbers in the transportation impact fees office/institutional, elementary school (K-8);
4. Addition of a category for retirement community in the park impact fees; and
5. Correction of the calculations in the general government impact fees related to industrial use.
The Florida Impact Fee Act provides that when increasing impact fees, 90 days' notice must be provided by ad...
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