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P - 4 Prescott City Council Regular Voting Meeting — October 28, 2008 Page 19 to come up with a fair and equitable way to put the impact fees out. It is not the best of time to do it, and he is not trying to bash anyone, nor is anyone on the Council. He would be happy to set up a panel to look at the issue. Councilman Bell said that maybe his request for a delay has been misconstrued. He had in mind that if they had a six-month delay that it would really be eight months away, which might stimulate the construction industry a little. If he was trying to build a new house he would be going to his architect and tell him to get busy so they could get the building permit to get the lower impact fees. COUNCILMAN BELL MOVED TO ADOPT ORDINANCE 4665-0908, WITH A COUPLE OF AMENDMENTS: 1) THE IMPOSITION OF THE FEES WOULD TAKE EFFECT ON JULY 11, 2009; AND 2) THE FEES WOULD BE DUE AND PAYABLE ON CERTIFICATE OF OCCUPANCY. Mr. McConnell said that the Statutes provide for the mechanism for a development agreement for the second amendment. It cannot be done in a blanket motion. Mr. Kidd agreed; it is only available through a specific development agreement. COUNCILMAN BELL WITHDREW THE SECOND AMENDMENT (THE FEES WOULD BE DUE AND PAYABLE ON CERTIFICATE OF OCCUPANCY). COUNCILMAN ROECKER SECONDED. Councilman Lamerson asked Ms. Bristol if she found that the cost of commercial impact fees a detriment to attracting new businesses and have any of the new businesses you have been trying to attract been soured by the cost of those impact fees. Ms. Bristol said that any time there is an increase in cost to do business in Prescott it concerns her. However, they are in a very complex economic market. The fact is that the market will dictate where a particular retail will go. Cost is a big concern. A bigger concern to her is delay of the capital improvement program so that when they have additional commercial that comes on line they don't have the infrastructure to support it. They are running out of space for commercial in current areas, so delay of the CIP is of an equal concern. Councilman Lamerson said that he hopes the public is hearing that there is more than one reason for doing the fees. It has to do with needs for the community as a whole, not just about chasing business away but attracting business and turning down the impact fees could very well damage the opportunity to attract such growth.