CITY COUNCIL AGENDA ITEM
ACTION REQUESTED:
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Conduct the first reading on an ordinance amending the structure and fee amounts included in Articles E, F, and H of Chapter 9 (Municipal Finances) of the Naperville Municipal Code.
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DEPARTMENT: Transportation, Engineering and Development
SUBMITTED BY: Amy Emery, AICP, Operations Manager
BOARD/COMMISSION REVIEW:
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BACKGROUND:
The City of Naperville has an established fee schedule which is used to assess applications fees for annexation, development, zoning and subdivision projects (hereinafter referred to as "entitlement fees"). The City's entitlement fee schedule has not been comprehensively reviewed and updated in more than 20 years.
As Naperville approaches buildout, development projects have become more complex. Projects are largely focused on redevelopment and often involve parcels with a variety of unique challenges. In this setting, it has become increasingly apparent that the City's traditional ways of assessing entitlement fees (i.e., per acre) do not necessarily correlate with the complexity of each project. Further complicating matters, a single development may require several types of plan reviews (e.g., site plans, landscape plans, engineering plans, traffic studies, etc.), each of which currently has a separate plan review fee calculated using a different methodology (e.g. per acre, per parking space created, improvement value, etc.). This can be very confusing to applicants and inefficient and difficult to administer.
To examine these issues more closely and propose solutions, Houseal-Lavigne Associates, LLC, was selected through a city procurement process to analyze existing entitlement fees and recommend improvements. Over a six-month period, they completed:
* A detailed cost-recovery analysis based on a series of Naperville development case studies using actual fees collected by the City compared to level-of-effort required and associated City costs; and
* A survey of the f...
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