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AGENDA
Planning & Development Committee Regular Meeting
4:00 PM - Thursday, August 10, 2017
Council Conference Room, 7th Floor, City Hall – 1055 S. Grady Way
1. FIRE IMPACT FEES UPDATE
a) AB - 1955 Community & Economic Development Department recommends initiating a
program to facilitate a change in practice that allows for the City to accept fire impact
fees on behalf of the Renton Regional Fire Authority.
2. EMERGING ISSUES IN CED
AB - 1955
City Council Regular Meeting - 07 Aug 2017
SUBJECT/TITLE: Fire Impact Fees Update
RECOMMENDED ACTION: Refer to Planning Commission and Planning & Development Committee
DEPARTMENT: Community & Economic Development
STAFF CONTACT: Angie Mathias, Long Range Planning Manager
EXT.: 6576
FISCAL IMPACT SUMMARY:
N/A
SUMMARY OF ACTION:
Impact fees are an important financial tool that helps keep infrastructure in pace with new development,
while not compounding deficiencies and reducing overall levels of service. The City currently collects impact
fees on behalf of three school districts and for transportation, parks, and fire. Impact fees can only be
expended for physical improvements (streets and sidewalks, park land and improvements, and fire stations
and trucks) not administrative, operating, or maintenance costs. Renton revised its impact fee structure in
2012 and phased in rate increases.
Due to the formation of the Fire Authority, there is now a need to shift from the City collecting the fee directly
to the City collecting it on behalf of the Fire Authority (similar to the school impact fees). The Fire Authority
has begun the process of developing a Capital Facilities Plan, which will serve as the basis for the impact fee.
Similar to the process followed by school districts, the Fire Authority will submit the Capital Facilities Plan to
the City and request that the City collect the fire impact fee on their behalf later this year. The City also needs
to amend the code section regarding impact fees to facilitate this change in administration of the fire impact
fee. Finally, the City and the Fire Authority will need to adopt an interlocal agreement for the collection,
distribution, and expenditure of fire impact fees.
The Administration recommends initiating a program to complete this work.
EXHIBITS:
N/A
STAFF RECOMMENDATION:
Refer to the Planning Commission and Planning & Development Committee for review. Following this review,
the Planning Commission will present recommendations to Council.
AGENDA ITEM #1. a)