Corning Municipal Code Ch. 13.19 Traffic Mitigation Fees—street, Bridges and Signalization

The city council does find that Corning is facing considerable growth, and such growth will overwhelm existing streets, intersections and bridges. The city, through its master planning, has taken into account the impacts and proposes the implementation of a fee to be levied on all new development in order to ensure that all development shares fairly in the cost of building the required city infrastructure.

(Ord. 619 (part), 2005: Ord. 618 (part), 2005).

A traffic mitigation fee for the purposes of providing for street, bridge and signalization improvements shall be paid to the city at the time of issuance of a building permit for each new single-family dwelling unit, each new multifamily dwelling unit, in new or expanding mobile home parks, each new mobile home or manufactured home, and each new commercial or industrial acre developed.

A. The fee shall be paid at the time of issuance of a building permit.

B. Each single-family unit shall pay one equivalent dwelling unit fee.

C. Each multifamily unit and mobile home unit shall pay one equivalent dwelling unit fee for each new dwelling unit.

D. For commercial and industrial development, including new motels and hotels, the fees shall be calculated at four equivalent dwelling units times each acre rounded to the next higher full acre. Such acreage fee is calculated on the basis of the average residential dwelling unit capacity of four units per acre.

E. The city recognizes that there are many methods of computing traffic mitigation fees, but has determined that the simple method of calculating mitigation fees on the basis of equivalent dwelling units (EDU) makes it possible for both builders and the city to quickly calculate costs while ensuring that the costs of infrastructure are spread evenly among all those who wish to build.

F. The initial traffic mitigation fee for streets, bridges and traffic signalization shall be set at five thousand four hundred eighty-eight dollars per dwelling unit or equivalent dwelling unit.

G. The city council may, from time to time, make changes in the traffic mitigation fees, by resolution of the city council.

H. The traffic mitigation fees for streets, bridges and signalization shall be collected and placed in a fund and used solely for traffic mitigation as approved by the city council.

(Ord. 619 (part), 2005: Ord. 618 (part), 2005).