Sarasota County Schools
Agenda Item #22
Title
APPROVAL OF REINSTATEMENT OF IMPACT FEES
Description
Pursuant to F.S.1013.33, the Sarasota County School Board and the Sarasota Board of County Commissioners are required to coordinate the planning of Educational Facilities with the planning of Principal Residential uses and the providing of other necessary services. In coordination with the School Board, on April 13, 2004, the Board of County Commissioners adopted Ordinance 2004-028, (amended at ordinance 2007-056) establishing impact fees for the Sarasota County Educational System. Those fees were established as follows: (1) Single-family - $2, 032.00 per Dwelling Unit; (2) Multifamily - $474.00 per Dwelling Unit; and (3) Mobile Home - $138.00 per Dwelling Unit. In response to the recent economic downturn the School Board recommended and the County Commission approved a moratorium on the collection of those fees. The fees have been in moratorium since December 2010. In January 2015, the School Board hired Tindale-Oliver to conduct both a growth management and an impact fee study. The results of those two studies have been presented to the School Board. Tindale-Oliver calculated the maximum impact fee as: (1) Single-family- $7,835 per Dwelling Unit; Multifamily - $2,165.00 per Dwelling Unit; and Mobile Home - $722.00 per Dwelling Unit. This motion represents fifty percent of the maximum calculated impact fee.
Recommendation
That the Sarasota County School Board recommend that the Sarasota Board of County Commissioners amend the Education System Impact Fee Ordinance to change the levied amount of Educational System Impact Fees as follows:
(1) Single-Family: $3,917.00 per Dwelling Unit
(2) Multifamily: $1,082.00 per Dwelling Unit
(3) Mobile Home: $362.00 per Dwelling Unit
(2) Multifamily: $1,082.00 per Dwelling Unit
(3) Mobile Home: $362.00 per Dwelling Unit
Contact
LEMPE
Financial Impact
N/A