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Department of Transportation recommending the Board consider the following pertaining to the revision of the Major Update of the Traffic Impact Fee (TIF) Program and the Capital Improvement Program (CIP) and consider the following:
1) Receive the adjusted El Dorado Countywide 2045 Housing and Employment Projections Memorandum, dated April 17, 2025;
2) Receive information on revisions to the list of roadway deficiency projects resulting from approved growth rates, adjusted growth allocations, and corresponding revisions to the Travel Demand Model;
3) Direct staff to adjust the residential and non-residential offset percentages to the proposed Traffic Impact Fees using the proposed Scenario 2; and
4) Direct staff to return on June 10, 2025, with the appropriate resolution for adoption of the Revised TIF Update, and to incorporate the changes to the CIP.
FUNDING: Traffic Impact Fee Program.
This item is being moved from a 3:30 P.M. Time Allocation to a 1:00 P.M. Time Allocation
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DISCUSSION / BACKGROUND
Reallocation of Projected Growth
The Board of Supervisors adopted the 2024 Major Update to the Traffic Impact Fee (TIF) Program on December 3, 2024. During review of the adopted Nexus Study and updated annual building permit data as preparation for the 2025 Annual Update required by General Plan Implementation Measure TC-B, Transportation staff identified a discrepancy between updated permit data and the baseline growth analysis prepared by the County’s consultants for the Major Update. In short, the updated baseline for available housing units in the West Slope is calculated based upon the number of units (building permits) constructed since the previous baseline analysis and the number of new/approved developable parcels and/or units created since the previous baseline analysis. While the number of units constructed between the previous baseline year of 2018 and the new baseline year of 2023 was correctly subtracted from the prior baseline, the numbe...
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