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TEST HPB Meeting 07-01-2026 5:01 PM - Jul 01, 2026

Delray Beach, FL City Commission July 1, 2026 4 minutes
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um the city needs to also have that mobility fee and so in the cip that will be considered where you're going to see a line item for a mobility plan and fee we were trying to do this before covid started and then like the money went crazy because everything went crazy so we started breaking it down into like the parking curbside management plan the bike pet master plan and we now we need somebody to pull all of those plans that are not specifically roadway plans and figure out a fee assessment similar to this table and it could be that if you're on military trail you're paying the county impact fee because the countywide transportation fee is figured plan has figured out what happens there but if you're in the tcea which by its definition means we're not widening the roads then maybe that fee stays with the city and can be used to build a train station sidewalks bike lanes other things that we need you know to improve mobility here this um ordinance is like laying the framework for bringing that fee in after that analysis is done as well so i think it's important to you know even if you don't like all of them we need to get some of this in place for the long term so if i may just a quick summary of some of the important things to note one is that this is not paid by existing residents it is paid on new development so it does not affect existing residents the money collected for each is deposited into a separate fund for that grouping so if you're paying a fire fee it can only be used for capital projects for the fire department so it's not mixed up with everything else we can't pay for just whatever we want out of it statute also identifies that we've got to pay for specific projects in a timeline all of our projects were came from the cip coming forward in the future we have an extensive list of inventory and and projects that's included in this wonderful exciting study that i had to read through several times so it's important to note that this is about the impacts of new development and new development only it is not a fee that goes to the existing residents it is something that will save them moving forward in having to pay for the impacts of new development we will all pay for the general maintenance of those and some of those other items as anthea alluded to these dollars can't pay a new police officer a firefighter but they can pay for the new vehicles that they need can pay for their portion of new structures unfortunately we're we're getting ahead on the the police headquarters at this time had that waited or we had this impact fee 20 years ago we would have had a fairly sizable pot of money to use and we wouldn't have to use all bond money for that construction at some point in the future as i mentioned before we'll need to build a new fire station may not be for another 10 years but at that time there'll be a substantial amount of money waiting for that to happen so all of the residents don't have to come up with it at that time or the bond release that everybody pays in the future isn't quite so large so i um i thought the study was fantastic uh i never understood that the impact fees were so complicated uh and it was uh exciting reading i didn't read it three times but uh a couple times um i didn't find it quite so exciting i kind of tozed off once or twice yeah it's okay um i wasn't going to admit that um this only is one-time fees so it would do little or nothing for the uh reduction in real estate taxes right maybe one year it would have an impact moving forward on those simply because that portion isn't going to come