Amador County – The Plymouth City Council could reconsider traffic fees for fast food restaurants today (Thursday, August 12th) at its regular meeting. The agenda includes a discussion of the Regional Traffic Mitigation Fee program and the council’s concern over what it considers to be excessive fees. Charles Field, executive director of the Amador County Transportation Commission, said in an August 4th letter that the fee program oversight committee (which includes Plymouth Councilman Jon Colburn) discussed and acknowledged Plymouth’s concerns at a July 22nd meeting. The committee requested by a vote that “Plymouth support the 3-tiered fee for restaurants and approve the amendment to the Memorandum of Understanding pending completion of the new countywide traffic model and a new nexus program.” Colburn abstained from the committee vote. Field said he believed the “oversight committee was empathetic to the city’s concerns that this amendment to the MOU is not a perfect solution that satisfies all concerns and that they are committed to amending the whole (Regional Traffic Mitigation Fee) nexus plan and fee structure within the next 6 months to 1-and-a-half years.” He said he thought Colburn agreed with his belief, and he offered to attend this week’s meeting to answer questions and give information “about how the (fee) program has been a success” for Plymouth, and to tell about “growing pains” ACTC member entities “will have to go through in order to keep this program a success.” The 3-tiered impact fee program includes a $48,000 fee per 1,000 square feet for a “fast food drive-through restaurant on a state highway.” The second tier is an $18,000 fee per 1,000 square feet for a “fast food drive-through restaurant within a shopping center or community” where a “fast food restaurant is not immediately adjacent to a state highway.” The 3rd tier fee is $7,000 per 1,000 square feet for a “quality sit-down restaurant drinking establishment.” The council could consider a resolution that would amend a 2006 MOU with ACTC, created “for the purpose of collecting fees from new development to off-set the impacts” of “new development upon the regional traffic system.” The council will also consider a request from ACTC to reallocate $325,000 left over from the Mission Boulevard extension project in Jackson. Field said Dokken Engineering and the fee program oversight committee recommend a “mid-year fund allocation revision” to place the $325,000 in the Prospect Drive relocation project in Sutter Creek. Story by Jim Reece This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Thursday, 12 August 2010 06:12
Plymouth to Revisit Fast Food Traffic Fee Issue
Amador County – The Plymouth City Council could reconsider traffic fees for fast food restaurants today (Thursday, August 12th) at its regular meeting. The agenda includes a discussion of the Regional Traffic Mitigation Fee program and the council’s concern over what it considers to be excessive fees. Charles Field, executive director of the Amador County Transportation Commission, said in an August 4th letter that the fee program oversight committee (which includes Plymouth Councilman Jon Colburn) discussed and acknowledged Plymouth’s concerns at a July 22nd meeting. The committee requested by a vote that “Plymouth support the 3-tiered fee for restaurants and approve the amendment to the Memorandum of Understanding pending completion of the new countywide traffic model and a new nexus program.” Colburn abstained from the committee vote. Field said he believed the “oversight committee was empathetic to the city’s concerns that this amendment to the MOU is not a perfect solution that satisfies all concerns and that they are committed to amending the whole (Regional Traffic Mitigation Fee) nexus plan and fee structure within the next 6 months to 1-and-a-half years.” He said he thought Colburn agreed with his belief, and he offered to attend this week’s meeting to answer questions and give information “about how the (fee) program has been a success” for Plymouth, and to tell about “growing pains” ACTC member entities “will have to go through in order to keep this program a success.” The 3-tiered impact fee program includes a $48,000 fee per 1,000 square feet for a “fast food drive-through restaurant on a state highway.” The second tier is an $18,000 fee per 1,000 square feet for a “fast food drive-through restaurant within a shopping center or community” where a “fast food restaurant is not immediately adjacent to a state highway.” The 3rd tier fee is $7,000 per 1,000 square feet for a “quality sit-down restaurant drinking establishment.” The council could consider a resolution that would amend a 2006 MOU with ACTC, created “for the purpose of collecting fees from new development to off-set the impacts” of “new development upon the regional traffic system.” The council will also consider a request from ACTC to reallocate $325,000 left over from the Mission Boulevard extension project in Jackson. Field said Dokken Engineering and the fee program oversight committee recommend a “mid-year fund allocation revision” to place the $325,000 in the Prospect Drive relocation project in Sutter Creek. Story by Jim Reece This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.Latest from
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