What is a Defensible Impact Fee Nexus?
AB-1600 (1989), later Chaptered as Government Code 66000, identified and codified the process and nexus effort required to calculate and...
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Gregory Brown
- Jun 11
- 2 min
California Development Impact Fee AB 602 Website Requirements
AB 602 came into effect on January 1, 2022. One of the Assembly Bill's main goals was to create more transparency for development impact...
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Scott Thorpe
- Feb 14
- 4 min
Negative Development Impact - It was bound to happen
Over the many years of calculating development impact fees, RCS has largely worked with cities/public agencies that have had significant...
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Gregory Brown
- Dec 12, 2023
- 2 min
Every City needs a Master Facility Plan
The Master Facilities Plan (MFP) is a valuable tool for effective urban planning and development. It serves as a comprehensive, long-term...
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Scott Thorpe
- Jul 13, 2023
- 4 min
Where is the General Plan Financial Element?
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, 2023
- 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, 2023
- 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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