Clark County Delays Discussion On Traffic Impact Fee Update Until 2001

VANCOUVER, WA-Clark County commissioners have postponed until February additional hearings on a proposed increase in the fees developers must pay to mitigate the traffic their new projects will generate over a 20-year period. The Greater Vancouver Chamber of Commerce and the attorney for several developers successfully argued that more time was needed to review the proposal released by county staff in the middle of November.

Commercial and retail developments would see the highest increase under the proposal. As an example, the agencies are saying that the developer of a 3,000-sf fast-food restaurant in South County that currently pays $11,327 would pay $117,655 under the new proposal, and the developer of a 50,000-sf office building in Downtown Vancouver that currently pays $8,808 would pay $119,237 under the new proposal. Costs in other areas would go down, but only slightly.