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Florence Community Actions City Council Information - Resolution re: SDCs |
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| Our Goal: To improve the livability of Florence through public education and community involvement. | |
Relating to Impact Fees and System Development Charges to Include Facilities for Police, Fire, Libraries and Schools
Source: City of Florence Public Records
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 SDC's by local governments; and
WHEREAS, ORS 223.229(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 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 cost of population growth can help to establish a carrying capacity process for our community and region, now, therefore
Be It Resolved that ORS 223.229(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 6th day of May, 2002.
(signed)
Alan Burns, Mayor
(signed)
Phil Scrima, City Recorder
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