File #: RES 24-14    Version: 1 Name: Approval of Development Impact Fees (2024)
Type: Resolution Status: Passed
File created: 3/12/2024 In control: City Council Regular Meeting
On agenda: 4/2/2024 Final action: 4/2/2024
Title: A Resolution of the Mayor and City Council of the City of Maricopa, Arizona, adopting the Development Impact Fees included within the Comprehensive Land Use Assumptions, Infrastructure Improvement Plan, and Development Impact Fee Analysis and setting an effective date of July 1st, 2024 as required by A.R.S. §9-463.05. Discussion and Action.
Sponsors: Office of Engineering & CIP Development
Attachments: 1. Resolution, 2. Infrastructure Improvement Plan, 3. Comparison Cities, 4. ADOT Construction Cost Index, 5. PowerPoint Presentation
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A Resolution of the Mayor and City Council of the City of Maricopa, Arizona, adopting the Development Impact Fees included within the Comprehensive Land Use Assumptions, Infrastructure Improvement Plan, and Development Impact Fee Analysis and setting an effective date of July 1st, 2024 as required by A.R.S. §9-463.05. Discussion and Action.

AGENDA ITEM DESCRIPTION

In order to continue collecting Development Impact Fees, the City must comply with Arizona Revised Statute (ARS) §9-463.05, by updating the Land Use Assumptions (LUA) and Infrastructure Improvement Plan (IIP) every five years. The last report was prepared in 2019 by TischlerBise.  LRB Public Finance Advisors was selected to prepare this update. 

The LUA section of the report incorporates information provided by City staff to establish current land use and projected land uses over the next 10 years.  Single-family, multi-family, commercial/retail, office, industrial and institutional uses of land have been projected to establish the need for growth-related infrastructure.  The IIP section of the report is incorporated into the discussion of each fee category (Parks & Recreation, Libraries (General Government), Police, Fire and Streets), and is the result of a comprehensive look at necessary improvements due to the impacts of growth.

The following three components must be included as part of adopting and collecting development impact fees.  These components must be updated at least every five years.

1.                     Land Use Assumptions - Projections of changes in land uses, densities, intensities, and population for a specified service area over a period of at least ten years and pursuant to the general plan of the municipality.

2.                     Infrastructure Improvement Plan - A written plan that identifies each necessary public service or facility expansion that is proposed to be the subject of a development fee that complies with the requirements the ARS. This is ba...

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