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The Mayor and City Council shall hear public comment regarding updated and/or new Development Impact Fees for the City of Maricopa, as listed in the recently approved Comprehensive Land Use Assumptions, Infrastructure Improvement Plan, and Development Impact Fee Analysis, dated December 2023.
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The Mayor and City Council shall hear public comment regarding the City’s updated Development Impact Fees.
Arizona Revised Statutes 9-463.05 provides the process for implementing development impact fees in Arizona. The first public step of this process is to present a Land Use Assumption and Infrastructure Improvement Plan ("LUA/IIP") for public comment. On September 19th, the City posted the draft LUA/IIP on its website and provided public notice of this public hearing. Although not required by statute, the City also held three separate stakeholder meetings, where the development community and the general public learned more about the Plan and asked clarifying questions. Responses to these questions were posted on the City’s website. City Staff continued to work through questions with various parties, and adjusted the draft LUA/IIP to adjust to some of these requests. The City Council held a public hearing on the LUA/IIP on 11/21/23, and later approved the plan on 1/16/24. Per State Statute, the City posed a notice of its intent to assess development impact fees on the City Website on January 17th, 2024. Following this public hearing, the City Council will consider adoption of the new and updated fees at its regularly scheduled meeting on 4/2/24. If approved, the new fees would take affect after June 16th, 2024.
It is important to note that the Development Impact Fees are based on the land use assumptions and infrastructure improvement plan that was approved by the City Council in January. These fees are meant to offset the costs associated with providing necessary public services to new developments, including the costs of infrast...
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