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Home My WebLink AboutCOUNCIL - AGENDA ITEM - 10/01/2002 - FIRST READING OF ORDINANCE NO. 142, 2002, AMENDING AGENDA ITEM SUMMARY ITEM NUMBER: 13 DATE: October 1, 2002 FORT COLLINS CITY COUNCIL FROM: Matt Baker ' SUBJECT : First Reading of Ordinance No. 142, 2002, Amending Section 7.5-32 of the City Code Pertaining to Street Oversizing Capital Expansion Fees. t RECOMMENDATION: Staff recommends adoption of the Ordinance on First Reading. i i EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: I Periodically, staff analyzes the costs and expenses of the Street Oversizing Program. Staff is proposing an increase of the Street Oversizing Capital Expansion Fees,as there have been some cost increases in elements of the Program. In addition, staff is proposing a recalculation to more equitably distribute the cost of bridges and box culverts on arterial streets. BACKGROUND: S Staff annually checks the costs and expenses of the Street Oversizing Program to validate the level of the impact fees charged to new development. Costs have remained static over the past year while unit prices have dropped slightly.No increase for inflation is being recommended. The Engineering News Record Construction Cost Index Regional Denver area has remained steady during the year. However, staff has encountered increasing requirements for street construction projects outside of the defined construction and engineering costs reimbursed to developers. These requirements are for environmental studies, water quality of street runoff, and habitat and wildlife studies. These requirements apply to only a few projects and do not increase the Street Oversizing Fee. However, as a matter of housekeeping, staff is including them in order to reimburse projects that encounter these expenses. There has been an increase in traffic signal costs from $80,000 per signal to $100,000 per signal. In addition, CDOT has increased signal requirements on state highway traffic signals, which raises these costs from $110,000 per signal to $230,000 per signal. Staff proposes a 4.9% increase to the Street Oversizing Fee to recover these increased costs for signals. The recently adopted Transfort Strategic Plan included a Capital Funding component. Staff recalculated the Street Oversizing Fee, substituting the newly adopted plan for the previous plan. This increases the Street Oversizing Fee by 2.2%. The biggest change to the current Street Oversizing Program is staff's recommendation to reallocate the exceptional costs of bridges and box culverts on arterial streets from the adjacent developer onto DATE: October 1, 2002 ITEM NUMBER: 13 the fee payer. Currently,the Street Oversizing Program requires the adjacent developer to construct the local street portion of arterial roadways, including bridge and box culvert structures. Staff proposes the reallocation of the local street portion of arterial bridges into the Street Oversizing Fee to spread the cost of these structures to all users, instead of being an obligation of the developer. Staff believes this would allow the City to determine the timing of bridge construction instead of waiting for all adjacent properties to develop. This would facilitate the street connectivity for new structures and the widening to accommodate increased traffic on existing structures. I This reallocation of arterial bridge and box culvert costs would increase the Street Oversizing Fee by 7.8%. However,it would reduce the developer's cost to construct lots and should have a minimal effect on the price of housing. There is currently a backlog of structures unable to be constructed because development has not occurred on all four adjacent properties of the structure. In order to not take on these older existing unfunded liabilities, a separate improvement plan for bridges and box culverts will be developed over the next budget cycle. CONCLUSION: i Staff believes this recalculation of the Street Oversizing Capital Expansion Fees to be necessary to recover costs to the Program. In addition, the reallocation of arterial bridges and box culverts is a j more equitable way of spreading the cost of these exceptional structures to the new development creating the need for the improvement. The Street Oversizing Program is a successful example of new growth paying its fair share of transportation improvements. Over the past five years the Street Oversizing Program has constructed more than $20 million in street, bike lane, traffic signal, sidewalk, and transit stop improvements. I • ORDINANCE NO. 142, 2002 OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF FORT COLLINS AMENDING SECTION 7.5-32 OF THE CODE PERTAINING TO STREET OVERSIZING CAPITAL EXPANSION FEES WHEREAS,the staff of the City annually examines the costs and expenses of the City's street oversizing program to validate the level of the impact fees charged to new development; and WHEREAS, as a result of staffs annual review, the Council has determined that the Street Oversizing Capital Expansion Fee schedule should be amended to adjust the fees to recover the costs resulting from additional requirements for street construction projects for the conduct of environmental studies and studies pertaining to water quality of street run-off and wildlife habitat; and WHEREAS, additional cost increases have also been identified in the cost of installation of traffic signals and capital funding for the Transfort Strategic Plan; and WHEREAS, the Council has further determined that there should be a reallocation of the exceptional costs of bridges and box culverts on arterial streets from being borne entirely by adjacent developers to being home by Street Oversizing Capital Fee payers. • NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF FORT COLLINS that Section 7.5-32 of the Code of the City of Fort Collins be amended to read as follows: Sec. 7.5-32. Street oversizing capital improvement expansion fee. There is hereby established a street oversizing capital improvement expansion fee which shall be imposed pursuant to the provisions of this Article for the purpose of funding street oversizing improvements related to the provision of transportation services. Such fees shall be payable prior to the issuance of any building permit for a residential, commercial or industrial structure. The amount of such fee shall be determined as follows: STREET OVERSIZING CAPITAL EXPANSION FEE SCHEDULE Average Weekday Vehicle Trips Transportation Residential (per housino unit) Impact Fee Rate SF detached 9.55 $}}2}$ ,tf73 per D.0 MF and other housing 6.59 9-4-87-1 361 per D.0 Hotel/motel 8.70 1,5671,797 per Room • Apartment 6.12 4,1831„264 per D.0 Retirement community 3.30 595682 per D.0 Assisted living 4.52 844934 per D.0 Congregate care facility 2.15 9ef444 per D.0 Residential condominium 5.86 1,8561,210 per D.0 Duplex 7.18 42941483 per D.0 Townhome 5.86 9;9561>;210 per D.0 Mobile Home 4.92 8861016 per D.0 Average Weekday Vehicle Trips Nonresidential (per 1,000 sg.lt) Comm/shopping center 1000K GLA 32.09 $337$3.86 Per Sq. Ft. 500K GLA 38.65 4364.65 Per Sq. Ft. 200K GLA 54.50 5.726c56 Per Sq. Ft. 50K GLA 91.65 6347-.58 Per Sq. Ft. Movie theater 77.79 87 69.36 Per Sq. Ft. Fitness/racquet club 17.14 +.932 22 Per Sq. Ft. Day care 79.26 8:494;90 Per Sq. Ft. Government office 68.93 ;1.788 92 Per Sq. Ft. Post office 86.78 9-7911,22 Per Sq. Ft. Building materials/lumber 39.71 4.4,4.78 Per Sq. Ft. Specialty retail 40.68 4-2-4.89 Per Sq. Ft. r. Discount club 41.80 4395.03 Per Sq. Ft. Nursery(garden center) 36.08 4374.67 Per Sq. Ft. Sit down restaurant 130.34 9:4010.78 Per Sq. Ft. Fast food restaurant w/driveup 496.12 2+.ff25 07 Per Sq. Ft. Car sales 37.50 4-294.85 Per Sq. Ft. Service station 168.56 /pump 7-,428:868,516.70 Per Pump Wholesale tire store 20.36 2-3e2:63 Per Sq. Ft. Self service car wash 5.79 /stall 2%.48292355 Per Stall Supermarket 111.51 8.849 22 Per Sq. Ft. Convenience market 737.99 32 53aTr29 Per Sq. Ft. Furniture store 5.06 949t02 Per Sq. Ft. Bank 189.95 779893 Per Sq. Ft. Drive-in bank 265.21 14fi91,3.40 Per Sq. Ft. Insurance building 11.45 9-291:48 Per Sq. Ft. Manufacturing 3.85 e68(); @ Per Sq. Ft. Warehousing 4.96 6 BQD Per Sq. Ft. Light industrial 6.97 4-231 41 Per Sq. Ft. Mini-warehouse 2.50 &44Q5F Per Sq. Ft. Business park 14.37 2 532s90 Per Sq. Ft. General office 200K GFA 11.54 2:G32.33 Per Sq. Ft. 50K GFA 16.31 2.88330 Per Sq. Ft. 10K GFA 24.39 4384,93 Per Sq. Ft. Recreational 3.64 /ac 644:79785,66 Per Acre City park 3.66 /ac 645-22739 70 Per Acre Golf course 5.04 /ac 888.561,018 61 Per Acre Elementary school 1.02 /student 479:8220SA5 Per Student Church/synagogue 9.11 4&+U4 Per Sq. Ft. Library 54.00 9-_EejQ*,91 Per Sq. Ft. Hospital 16.78 Per Sq. Ft. Nursing home 2.60 /bed ?4.87 Per Bed Medical clinic 31.45 5.546 36 Per Sq. Ft. *Notes: I. Rate calculation for each item based on the product of Number of Weekday Trips,Trip Adjustment Factor and Cost Per Unit of Trip. 2. Italicized building types indicate that high pass-by trip adjustment factor us used when calculating SOS Rate. Introduced and considered favorably on first reading and ordered published this 1st day of October, A.D. 2002, and to be presented for final passage on the 15th day of October, A.D. 2002. Mayor ATTEST: City Clerk Passed and adopted on final reading this 15th day of October, A.D. 2002. Mayor ATTEST: City Clerk