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Prescott City Council Regular Voting Meeting—August 29,2006 Page 16 Councilman Lamerson commented there were a lot of factors involved, such as the cost benefit ratios, residential development versus commercial development; residential development didn't cover the cost in services whereas commercial development made money and asked if there was a Street Impact Fee. Mr. Woodfill responded there was one and that would also be part of the Planned Growth Strategy program. Howard Mechanic, 309 Bloom Place, made the following points: • Residential takes$1.30 in services for every$1 it takes in. • Past councils didn't address growth effectively. • Fees were going up; costs of construction and land were going up and the City needed to keep up. • Impact fees were not paid by existing users of services. • Growth should pay for growth. New growth should pay full and fair costs. • Keep services for the public. • If someone built a 4,000 sf home and had to pay$20,000 in impact fees that seemed reasonable. • Don't delay the other impact fees(other than Police and Fire).The City should start collecting the impact fees before they start building the project. kir ■ Should implement the non-residential impact fees. Dave Maurer, CEO of the Prescott Chamber of Commerce,thanked staff for talking with them while they formed their policy on this. He listed the following 5 points for Council to consider: • Council shouldn't impose all maximum impact fees. • The Chamber supported the increase in Police and Fire. • While streets were not addressed in this round of impact fees,they note the importance of a transportation system in growth areas and encourage the Council to deal with it sooner, rather than later. • The Chamber did not support the implementation of non- residential impact fees. • The Chamber opposed an annual cost of living adjustment in the fees. Jim Lawrence —A recent State services study was done and it was found that residential services cost $1.85 for every $1 brought in; the impact fees needed to be increased enough to get facilities built, otherwise service levels dropped and it was extremely important that impact fees be raised to the proper level and done at this time.