DEVELOPMENT IMPACT FEE
Development Fee Studies
Evaluation of Fee Methodology
Litigation Support
Local government relies on development impact fees to equitably distribute the cost of regional public improvements that serve new development areas. The amount and type of development impact fees that are charged to new development are influenced by many factors, such as, economics, politics, and, of course, technical benefit analysis. Many different cost allocation methods can be deployed in performing technical benefit analysis to yield significantly different development fee impact amounts. DPFG consultants have the requisite experience to establish or evaluate the appropriateness of development impact fees being imposed by local government.
DEVELOPMENT IMPACT FEE SERVICES
- Evaluate historical fees and methodologies of local government
- Survey applicable development fees of other agencies
- Determine adequacy of area of benefit
- Evaluate appropriateness of impact fee methodology
- Develop strategies to reasonably reduce impact fees
- Prepare impact fee cash flow revenue / expenditure model
- Identify other funding sources that could offset impact fee
- Prepare development impact fee reports
- Critique development impact fee studies prepared by others
- Develop alternatives to establishing development impact fees
- Develop impact fee leveraging alternatives
- Determine impact fee offset and borrowing strategies
- Assist in documenting development impact fee agreements
- Determine appropriate fee credits or reimbursements
- Prepare development impact fee tracking models
