Title
Draft Infrastructure Financing Plan: 2020 Update
Description
Request to approve the Draft Infrastructure Financing Plan: 2020 Update and conclude the public comment period, as required by Arizona Revised Statutes (ARS).
Report
Summary
Arizona’s development impact fee enabling statute ARS 9-463.05 requires cities to review and, if necessary, update development impact fees every five years. Impact fees are assessed on building permits within designated "new development" areas to help pay for certain capital facilities that are required to serve new development. Phoenix currently administers nine development impact fee programs including: Fire Protection, Police, Parks, Libraries, Major Arterials, Storm Drainage, Water, Wastewater, and Water Resources Acquisition. The City's last impact fee update was approved by City Council on Jan. 21, 2015 and the fees took effect on April 5, 2015. In addition to maintaining compliance with impact fee rules, updating the impact fee program helps to ensure fees are in-line with current growth projections, infrastructure plans, and facility costs. In accordance with Arizona impact fee rules, draft land use assumptions (LUAs) and infrastructure improvements plans (IIPs) for each impact fee category have been prepared, and made available to the public. The draft LUAs and IIPs have been consolidated in a single document titled Draft Infrastructure Financing Plan: 2020 Update (Draft IFP) that, along with several supplemental reports, was posted to the City's website on July 1, 2019. The Draft IFP may be viewed online at: https://www.phoenix.gov/pdd/devfees/impactfees/draftifp.
Public Hearing
A public hearing on the draft LUAs and IIPs was conducted on Sept. 4, 2019, in accordance with A.R.S. 9-463.05. The staff report for the public hearing, that summarizes significant proposed changes reflected in the Draft IFP and compares the current and the draft proposed impact fees, is incorporated with this staff report as Attachment A.
Public Comment Period
Comments received on the Draft IFP during the public comment period will be considered for incorporation in the Final Infrastructure Financing Plan: 2020 Update, that will be prepared and made available to the public soon after the Draft IFP is approved by City Council. The only public comments received to date were submitted by the Impact Fee Ad Hoc Committee on Sept.11, 2019. The recommendation letter prepared by the Impact Fee Ad Hoc Committee is incorporated with this staff report as Attachment B.
Concurrence
A presentation of the development impact fee review process and preliminary recommendations for the draft IFP was provided to the Water, Wastewater, Infrastructure and Sustainability Subcommittee on June 5, 2019 for information and discussion.
Department
Responsible Department
This item is submitted by Deputy City Manager Mario Paniagua and the Planning and Development Department.