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1927 - State creates (requires) authority for cities/counties to prepare a General Plan. 1955 - Circulation and Land Use Elements...
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Gregory Brown
- Jun 14
- 3 min
The Echo City
An Echo City Buildout is a new type of city structure that we are encountering on the development impact side of RCS. The term Echo City...
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Scott Thorpe
- Mar 14
- 3 min
Independent Audits of Impact Fee Receipts
Your public agency is experiencing development, so, to get out in front of it: 1. You have a development impact fee calculation and...
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Gregory Brown
- Nov 15, 2022
- 2 min
Can Impact Fees Cover Operational Costs?
Can Development Impact Fees (DIFs) cover operational costs? This question eventually comes up in every DIF meeting I have ever attended...
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Scott Thorpe
- Oct 11, 2022
- 3 min
A Discussion of Development Impact Fees
On September 8th of this year, I had the opportunity to attend the League of California Cities annual conference as a speaker. I’m kind...
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Scott Thorpe
- Jun 12, 2022
- 3 min
How not to calculate Development Impact Fees - How AB 602 may affect you
2022 brought into law a new effort to standardize Development Impact Fees with the passage of AB 602, which, among other things, requires...
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Eric Johnson
- May 15, 2022
- 2 min
How often is enough? When should you update your fees
As a fee consultant, the question that I get asked most often is, “How often should we be updating our fees?” Once I dispose of the...
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Scott Thorpe
- Aug 15, 2021
- 2 min
The Effect of Time on Saved Money
I’m going to keep this short, but I think it’s powerful. It’s about what happens to your saved money over time. I was recently contacted...
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Scott Thorpe
- Dec 15, 2020
- 5 min
RCS Impact Fees are Battle Tested
The last thing I ever needed to hear from one of my clients was “We are being sued over our impact fees”. Never fun. But that is just...
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Scott Thorpe
- Jun 21, 2020
- 3 min
Accessory Dwelling Unit Impact Fee Calculation
In July of 2017, I wrote my first RCS article about Accessory Dwelling Units (ADUs) in which I merely identified the differing types of...
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Rick Kermer
- May 11, 2020
- 6 min
Development’s Winners and Losers
There are four players in the development game: developers, contractors, landowners and residents. Each plays a critical role, and each...
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Scott Thorpe
- Dec 8, 2019
- 3 min
The Five Findings for Development Impact Fees
Most every municipal finance officer is aware of the five findings (in Government Code §66000) required to adopt development impact...
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- Aug 12, 2019
- 2 min
Do Development Fees Affect Home Sales?
At about every other Council or town-hall meeting I attend there is the question about whether development fees (planning fees, permit...
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Scott Thorpe
- Jul 15, 2019
- 4 min
Determining Development Impact Fee Land-Use Categories
The land-use database inventory is the spine of any Development Impact Fee (henceforth DIF) calculation effort. It is a data table that...
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Rick Kermer
- May 12, 2019
- 3 min
Framing the Case for Fees
As the typical reader of the RCS blog articles, you are a technically skilled government finance professional and can make a strong...
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Scott Thorpe
- Mar 17, 2019
- 4 min
Circulation Infrastructure Nexus
In my early years of calculating development impact fees (henceforth DIFs) I had to experiment with different nexus factors for...
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Scott Thorpe
- Jul 13, 2018
- 5 min
Thirty Years of Impact Fee Experience
This last January 16th I watched with no small amount of pride while the Chino City Council adopted an updated set of development impact...
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Scott Thorpe
- Nov 13, 2017
- 3 min
Mandatory Approval of Accessory Dwelling Units
In July I wrote about the State Legislature requiring easier paths to increasing residential Accessory Dwelling Unit (ADU) construction...
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Scott Thorpe
- Jul 7, 2017
- 3 min
Accessory Dwelling Units
Many of you have been wrestling with integrating the recently passed State legislation (AB 2299 and SB 1069) that requires most cities to...
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Scott Thorpe
- Apr 16, 2017
- 4 min
Two Not-So-Scary DIF Collection Requirements
I often get asked about two Development Impact Fee “problems.” The first is the “five-year requirement” and the second is the difficulty...
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