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Draft resolution calling for
amendments
to the rules regarding SDCs and impact fees
FOR THE PURPOSE OF URGING AMENDMENT OF ORS 223.297, ET SEQ. RELATING TO IMPACT FEES AND SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT CHARGES TO INCLUDE FACILITIES FOR POLICE, FIRE, LIBRARIES AND SCHOOLS
RESOLUTION NO. 02-
Introduced by Councilor
WHEREAS, Growth can create significant fiscal impacts on the citizens and governments of our community; and
WHEREAS, the purpose of ORS 223.297 to ORS 223.314, the system development charges statutes, serve to provide a uniform framework for establishing SDCs by local governments; and
WHEREAS, ORS 223.299(1)a. currently excludes facilities for police, fire, libraries, and schools from the list of urban capital improvements for which local jurisdictions may collect impact fees or system development charges; and
WHEREAS, Prohibiting communities from being able to collect the full costs of providing for police, fire, library and school facilities is a tax on existing residents; and
WHEREAS, Inequity can occur when broad-based taxes paid by all residents of a community are used to fund facilities and services that primarily benefit new development; and
WHEREAS, Subsidy of new development can distort the balance of supply and demand and cause overproduction or overbuilding; and
WHEREAS, Providing a free market without government subsidies that mask the true costs of population growth can help to establish a carrying capacity process for our community and region; now, therefore,
BE IT RESOLVED
That ORS 223.299(1) should be amended to add police, fire, library, and school facilities to the list of capital improvements for which local jurisdictions may collect impact fees and system development charges.
ADOPTED by the City Council this _____ day of _____________, 2000.
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