TO: Honorable Mayor & Members of the North Port Commission
FROM: A. Jerome Fletcher II, City Manager
TITLE: An Ordinance of the City of North Port, Florida, Amending the Code of The City of North Port, Florida, Chapter 58 - Planning and Development, Article III. - Impact Fees and Updating Impact Fee Rate Schedules for the City's Parks, Fire Rescue, Law Enforcement, General Government, and Solid Waste Impact Fees; Providing for Conflicts; Providing for Severability; Providing for Codification; and Providing an Effective Date.
Recommended Action
Continue Ordinance No. 2022-03 to second reading on June 21, 2022.
Recommended Action for Second Reading
Approve Ordinance 2022-03.
Background Information
Impact fees are charged on 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 Code of the City of North Port, Florida, establishes the City's impact fees.
The City's current impact fees are based on an Impact Fee Study prepared in 2011 and the fees calculated in 2011 can no longer fund the intended facilities and level of service. As such, City Commission directed staff to conduct a Study to update the City's impact fees, excluding transportation impact fees. A Consultant was retained to evaluate the current and projected financial condition of the City's impact fees to determine and propose any necessary or potential adjustments for the City of North Port to be able to adequately provide capital improvements to support development. In September 2021, the consultant work assignment was revised to also include "extraordinary circumstances" as required by state statute.
A Development Impact Fee Update Study has been prepared and the following Workshops and City Commission Meetings were held on the Study drafts:
? August 27, 2020: A Community Outreach Workshop was conducted.
? September 22, 2020: A Draft Impact Fee Study...
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