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IMPACT FEE ADVISORY COMMITTEE
DEPARTMENT REPORT
OCTOBER 6, 2009
1. Docket No. 090900120 A: ZO Ch 29: Parks and Recreation Impact Fees Amendment
The applicant seeks to Amend Section 29.07: Parks and Recreation Impact Fees and Section 3.07: Definitions
of the Zoning O rdinan ce in order to update existing impact fee provisions, as well as the definitions of two
pertinent terms. The proposal would renew the impact fee that is currently imposed on new residential
development to defray the cost of new parks and recreation infrastructure, for an additional five years (from
2010 to 2015). The impact fee is currently imposed at a level of $1,261 /unit. It would remain at $1,261 for an
additional year, and then be increased to $1,387 effective September 2011, to $1,526 effective September
2012, to $1,679 effective September 2013, and finally to $1,847 effective September 2014. The fee would then
expire in September 2015. Filed by the Carmel Department of Community Services, on behalf of the Carmel
Plan Commission.
2. Docket No.09090013CP Amend: 2010 -2015 Zone Improvement Plan (ZIP)
The applicant seeks to update the existing 2005 -2010 Zone Improvement Plan, upon which the parks and
recreation impact fee is based, and to add the ZIP as an appendix item to the Carmel Clay Consolidated Plan
(C3 Plan). The proposal contains a projected 10 -year development plan for parks and recreation infrastructure
which includes an estimated $23.45 million in additions and improvements to the existing Carmel /Clay parks
system. The proposal also recommends that the existing impact fee (currently imposed at a level of
$1,261 /unit) remain at $1,261 for an additional year, and then be increasedto $1,387 effective September
2011, to $1,526 effective September 2012, to $1,679 effective September 2013, and finally to $1,847 effective
September 2014. Filed by the Carmel Department of Community Services, on behalf of the Carmel Plan
Commission.
Please refer to the memo, draft ordinance, and Impact Fee Study that was mailed out a few weeks ago.
The Dept of C ommunity Services (DOCS) recommends that the Impact Fee Advisory Committee
recommends approval of these items at the conclusion of its meeting, and suggests that the committee
include a further recommendation for the Plan Commission: that the Plan Commission should suspend
its rules of procedure and certify these proposals to the Council after the public hearing at the October
20 Commission meeting.