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First Substitute H.B. 259

Representative Stephen E. Sandstrom proposes the following substitute bill:


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IMPACT FEES ON SCHOOL DISTRICTS

             2     
AND CHARTER SCHOOLS

             3     
2009 GENERAL SESSION

             4     
STATE OF UTAH

             5     
Chief Sponsor: Stephen E. Sandstrom

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Senate Sponsor: Howard A. Stephenson

             7     
             8      LONG TITLE
             9      General Description:
             10          This bill modifies provisions relating to impact fees.
             11      Highlighted Provisions:
             12          This bill:
             13          .    enacts a definition of "charter school";
             14          .    repeals obsolete language relating to impact fees;
             15          .    clarifies the purposes of an impact fee capital facilities plan;
             16          .    modifies provisions relating to the written analysis associated with impact fees;
             17          .    modifies provisions relating to an impact fee enactment;
             18          .    limits impacts fees that can be imposed on a school district or charter school; and
             19          .    makes technical changes.
             20      Monies Appropriated in this Bill:
             21          None
             22      Other Special Clauses:
             23          None
             24      Utah Code Sections Affected:
             25      AMENDS:


             26          11-36-102, as last amended by Laws of Utah 2008, Chapters 70 and 360
             27          11-36-201, as last amended by Laws of Utah 2008, Chapters 70, 360, and 382
             28          11-36-202, as last amended by Laws of Utah 2008, Chapter 70
             29     
             30      Be it enacted by the Legislature of the state of Utah:
             31          Section 1. Section 11-36-102 is amended to read:
             32           11-36-102. Definitions.
             33          As used in this chapter:
             34          (1) "Building permit fee" means the fees charged to enforce the uniform codes adopted
             35      pursuant to Title 58, Chapter 56, Utah Uniform Building Standards Act, that are not greater
             36      than the fees indicated in the appendix to the International Building Code.
             37          (2) "Capital facilities plan" means the plan required by Section 11-36-201 .
             38          (3) "Charter school" includes:
             39          (a) an operating charter school;
             40          (b) an applicant for a charter school whose application has been approved by a
             41      chartering entity as provided in Title 53A, Chapter 1a, Part 5, The Utah Charter Schools Act;
             42      and
             43          (c) an entity that is working on behalf of a charter school or approved charter applicant
             44      to develop or construct a charter school building.
             45          (3) "Development activity" means any construction or expansion of a building,
             46      structure, or use, any change in use of a building or structure, or any changes in the use of land
             47      that creates additional demand and need for public facilities.
             48          (4) "Development approval" means any written authorization from a local political
             49      subdivision that authorizes the commencement of development activity.
             50          (5) "Enactment" means:
             51          (a) a municipal ordinance, for a municipality;
             52          (b) a county ordinance, for a county; and
             53          (c) a governing board resolution, for a local district, special service district, or private
             54      entity.
             55          (6) "Hookup fees" means reasonable fees, not in excess of the approximate average
             56      costs to the political subdivision, for services provided for and directly attributable to the


             57      connection to utility services, including gas, water, sewer, power, or other municipal, county,
             58      local district, or special service district utility services.
             59          (7) (a) "Impact fee" means a payment of money imposed upon development activity as
             60      a condition of development approval.
             61          (b) "Impact fee" does not mean a tax, a special assessment, a building permit fee, a
             62      hookup fee, a fee for project improvements, or other reasonable permit or application fee.
             63          (8) (a) "Local political subdivision" means a county, a municipality, a local district
             64      under Title 17B, Limited Purpose Local Government Entities - Local Districts, or a special
             65      service district under Title 17D, Chapter 1, Special Service District Act.
             66          (b) "Local political subdivision" does not mean a school district, whose impact fee
             67      activity is governed by Section 53A-20-100.5 .
             68          (9) "Private entity" means an entity with private ownership that provides culinary water
             69      that is required to be used as a condition of development.
             70          (10) (a) "Project improvements" means site improvements and facilities that are:
             71          (i) planned and designed to provide service for development resulting from a
             72      development activity; and
             73          (ii) necessary for the use and convenience of the occupants or users of development
             74      resulting from a development activity.
             75          (b) "Project improvements" does not mean system improvements.
             76          (11) "Proportionate share" means the cost of public facility improvements that are
             77      roughly proportionate and reasonably related to the service demands and needs of any
             78      development activity.
             79          (12) "Public facilities" means only the following capital facilities that have a life
             80      expectancy of ten or more years and are owned or operated by or on behalf of a local political
             81      subdivision or private entity:
             82          (a) water rights and water supply, treatment, and distribution facilities;
             83          (b) wastewater collection and treatment facilities;
             84          (c) storm water, drainage, and flood control facilities;
             85          (d) municipal power facilities;
             86          (e) roadway facilities;
             87          (f) parks, recreation facilities, open space, and trails; and


             88          (g) public safety facilities.
             89          (13) (a) "Public safety facility" means:
             90          (i) a building constructed or leased to house police, fire, or other public safety entities;
             91      or
             92          (ii) a fire suppression vehicle with a ladder reach of at least 75 feet, costing in excess of
             93      $1,250,000, that is necessary for fire suppression in commercial areas with one or more
             94      buildings at least five stories high.
             95          (b) "Public safety facility" does not mean a jail, prison, or other place of involuntary
             96      incarceration.
             97          (14) (a) "Roadway facilities" means streets or roads that have been designated on an
             98      officially adopted subdivision plat, roadway plan, or general plan of a political subdivision,
             99      together with all necessary appurtenances.
             100          (b) "Roadway facilities" includes associated improvements to federal or state roadways
             101      only when the associated improvements:
             102          (i) are necessitated by the new development; and
             103          (ii) are not funded by the state or federal government.
             104          (c) "Roadway facilities" does not mean federal or state roadways.
             105          (15) (a) "Service area" means a geographic area designated by a local political
             106      subdivision on the basis of sound planning or engineering principles in which a defined set of
             107      public facilities provide service within the area.
             108          (b) "Service area" may include the entire local political subdivision.
             109          (16) (a) "System improvements" means:
             110          (i) existing public facilities that are designed to provide services to service areas within
             111      the community at large; and
             112          (ii) future public facilities identified in a capital facilities plan that are intended to
             113      provide services to service areas within the community at large.
             114          (b) "System improvements" does not mean project improvements.
             115          Section 2. Section 11-36-201 is amended to read:
             116           11-36-201. Impact fees -- Analysis -- Capital facilities plan -- Notice of plan --
             117      Summary -- Exemptions.
             118          (1) (a) Each local political subdivision and private entity shall comply with the


             119      requirements of this chapter before establishing or modifying any impact fee.
             120          (b) A local political subdivision may not:
             121          (i) establish any new impact fees that are not authorized by this chapter; or
             122          (ii) impose or charge any other fees as a condition of development approval unless
             123      those fees are a reasonable charge for the service provided.
             124          (c) Notwithstanding any other requirements of this chapter, each local political
             125      subdivision shall ensure that each existing impact fee that is charged for any public facility not
             126      authorized by Subsection 11-36-102 (12) is repealed by July 1, 1995.
             127          [(d) (i) Existing impact fees that a local political subdivision charges for public
             128      facilities authorized in Subsection 11-36-102 (12) need not comply with the requirements of
             129      this chapter until July 1, 1997.]
             130          [(ii) By July 1, 1997, each local political subdivision shall:]
             131          [(A) review any impact fees in existence as of the effective date of this act, and prepare
             132      and approve the analysis required by this section for each of those impact fees; and]
             133          [(B)] (d) Each local political subdivision shall ensure that the impact fees comply with
             134      the requirements of this chapter.
             135          (2) (a) Before imposing impact fees, each local political subdivision and private entity
             136      shall, except as provided in Subsection (2)(f), prepare a capital facilities plan to determine the
             137      public facilities required to serve development resulting from new development activity.
             138          (b) (i) As used in this Subsection (2)(b):
             139          (A) (I) "Affected entity" means each county, municipality, local district under Title
             140      17B, Limited Purpose Local Government Entities - Local Districts, special service district
             141      under Title 17D, Chapter 1, Special Service District Act, school district, interlocal cooperation
             142      entity established under Chapter 13, Interlocal Cooperation Act, and specified public utility:
             143          (Aa) whose services or facilities are likely to require expansion or significant
             144      modification because of the facilities proposed in the proposed capital facilities plan; or
             145          (Bb) that has filed with the local political subdivision or private entity a copy of the
             146      general or long-range plan of the county, municipality, local district, special service district,
             147      school district, interlocal cooperation entity, or specified public utility.
             148          (II) "Affected entity" does not include the local political subdivision or private entity
             149      that is required under this Subsection (2) to provide notice.


             150          (B) "Specified public utility" means an electrical corporation, gas corporation, or
             151      telephone corporation, as those terms are defined in Section 54-2-1 .
             152          (ii) Before preparing or amending a capital facilities plan, each local political
             153      subdivision and each private entity shall provide written notice, as provided in this Subsection
             154      (2)(b), of its intent to prepare or amend a capital facilities plan.
             155          (iii) Each notice under Subsection (2)(b)(ii) shall:
             156          (A) indicate that the local political subdivision or private entity intends to prepare or
             157      amend a capital facilities plan;
             158          (B) describe or provide a map of the geographic area where the proposed capital
             159      facilities will be located;
             160          (C) be sent to:
             161          (I) each county in whose unincorporated area and each municipality in whose
             162      boundaries is located the land on which the proposed facilities will be located;
             163          (II) each affected entity;
             164          (III) the Automated Geographic Reference Center created in Section 63F-1-506 ;
             165          (IV) the association of governments, established pursuant to an interlocal agreement
             166      under Title 11, Chapter 13, Interlocal Cooperation Act, in which the facilities are proposed to
             167      be located;
             168          (V) the state planning coordinator appointed under Section 63J-4-202 ;
             169          (VI) the registered agent of the Utah Home Builders Association;
             170          (VII) the registered agent of the Utah Association of Realtors; and
             171          (VIII) the registered agent of the Utah Chapter of the Associated General Contractors
             172      of America; and
             173          (D) with respect to the notice to an affected entity, invite the affected entity to provide
             174      information for the local political subdivision or private entity to consider in the process of
             175      preparing, adopting, and implementing or amending a capital facilities plan concerning:
             176          (I) impacts that the facilities proposed in the capital facilities plan may have on the
             177      affected entity; and
             178          (II) facilities or uses of land that the affected entity is planning or considering that may
             179      conflict with the facilities proposed in the capital facilities plan.
             180          (c) The plan shall identify:


             181          (i) demands placed upon existing public facilities by new development activity; and
             182          (ii) the proposed means by which the local political subdivision will meet those
             183      demands.
             184          (d) A municipality or county need not prepare a separate capital facilities plan if the
             185      general plan required by Section 10-9a-401 or 17-27a-401 , respectively, contains the elements
             186      required by Subsection (2)(c).
             187          (e) (i) If a local political subdivision chooses to prepare an independent capital
             188      facilities plan rather than include a capital facilities element in the general plan, the local
             189      political subdivision shall:
             190          (A) before preparing or contracting to prepare or amending or contracting to amend the
             191      independent capital facilities plan, send written notice:
             192          (I) to:
             193          (Aa) the registered agent of the Utah Home Builders Association;
             194          (Bb) the registered agent of the Utah Association of Realtors; and
             195          (Cc) the registered agent of the Utah Chapter of the Associated General Contractors of
             196      America;
             197          (II) stating the local political subdivision's intent to prepare or amend a capital facilities
             198      plan; and
             199          (III) inviting each of the notice recipients to participate in the preparation of or
             200      amendment to the capital facilities plan; and
             201          (B) before adopting or amending the capital facilities plan:
             202          (I) give public notice of the plan or amendment according to Subsection (2)(e)(ii)(A),
             203      (B), or (C), as the case may be, at least 14 days before the date of the public hearing;
             204          (II) make a copy of the plan or amendment, together with a summary designed to be
             205      understood by a lay person, available to the public;
             206          (III) place a copy of the plan or amendment and summary in each public library within
             207      the local political subdivision; and
             208          (IV) hold a public hearing to hear public comment on the plan or amendment.
             209          (ii) With respect to the public notice required under Subsection (2)(e)(i)(B)(I):
             210          (A) each municipality shall comply with the notice and hearing requirements of, and,
             211      except as provided in Subsection 11-36-401 (4)(f), receive the protections of Sections


             212      10-9a-205 and 10-9a-801 and Subsection 10-9a-502 (2);
             213          (B) each county shall comply with the notice and hearing requirements of, and, except
             214      as provided in Subsection 11-36-401 (4)(f), receive the protections of Sections 17-27a-205 and
             215      17-27a-801 and Subsection 17-27a-502 (2); and
             216          (C) each local district, special service district, and private entity shall comply with the
             217      notice and hearing requirements of, and receive the protections of, Section 17B-1-111 .
             218          (iii) Nothing contained in this Subsection (2)(e) or in the subsections referenced in
             219      Subsections (2)(e)(ii)(A) and (B) may be construed to require involvement by a planning
             220      commission in the capital facilities planning process.
             221          (f) (i) A local political subdivision with a population or serving a population of less
             222      than 5,000 as of the last federal census need not comply with the capital facilities plan
             223      requirements of this part, but shall ensure that:
             224          (A) the impact fees that the local political subdivision imposes are based upon a
             225      reasonable plan; and
             226          (B) each applicable notice required by this chapter is given.
             227          (ii) Subsection (2)(f)(i) does not apply to private entities.
             228          (3) In preparing the plan, each local political subdivision shall generally consider all
             229      revenue sources, including impact fees and anticipated dedication of system improvements, to
             230      finance the impacts on system improvements.
             231          (4) A local political subdivision or private entity may only impose impact fees on
             232      development activities when its plan for financing system improvements establishes that
             233      impact fees are necessary to achieve an equitable allocation to the costs borne in the past and to
             234      be borne in the future, in comparison to the benefits already received and yet to be received.
             235          (5) (a) Subject to the notice requirement of Subsection (5)(b), each local political
             236      subdivision and private entity intending to impose an impact fee shall prepare a written analysis
             237      of each impact fee that:
             238          (i) identifies the anticipated impact on or consumption of any existing capacity of a
             239      public facility by the anticipated development activity;
             240          [(i)] (ii) identifies the anticipated impact on system improvements required by the
             241      anticipated development activity to maintain the established level of service for each public
             242      facility;


             243          [(ii)] (iii) demonstrates how those anticipated impacts [on system improvements] are
             244      reasonably related to the anticipated development activity;
             245          [(iii)] (iv) estimates the proportionate share of:
             246          (A) the costs for existing capacity that will be recouped; and
             247          (B) the costs of impacts on system improvements that are reasonably related to the new
             248      development activity; and
             249          (iv) based upon those factors and the requirements of this chapter, identifies how the
             250      impact fee was calculated.
             251          (b) Before preparing or contracting to prepare the written analysis required under
             252      Subsection (5)(a), each local political subdivision or private entity shall provide:
             253          (i) public notice; and
             254          (ii) written notice:
             255          (A) to:
             256          (I) the registered agent of the Utah Home Builders Association;
             257          (II) the registered agent of the Utah Association of Realtors; and
             258          (III) the registered agent of the Utah Chapter of the Associated General Contractors of
             259      America;
             260          (B) indicating the local political subdivision or private entity's intent to prepare or
             261      contract to prepare a written analysis of an impact fee; and
             262          (C) inviting each notice recipient to participate in the preparation of the written
             263      analysis.
             264          (c) In analyzing whether or not the proportionate share of the costs of public facilities
             265      are reasonably related to the new development activity, the local political subdivision or private
             266      entity, as the case may be, shall identify, if applicable:
             267          (i) the cost of each existing public [facilities] facility that has excess capacity to serve
             268      the anticipated development resulting from the new development activity;
             269          (ii) the cost of system improvements for each public facility;
             270          [(ii)] (iii) other than impact fees, the manner of financing [existing] each public
             271      [facilities] facility, such as user charges, special assessments, bonded indebtedness, general
             272      taxes, or federal grants;
             273          [(iii)] (iv) the relative extent to which [the newly developed properties and other


             274      properties have already contributed to the cost of] development activity will contribute to
             275      financing the excess capacity of and system improvements for each existing public [facilities]
             276      facility, by such means as user charges, special assessments, or payment from the proceeds of
             277      general taxes;
             278          [(iv)] (v) the relative extent to which [the newly developed properties and other
             279      properties] development activity will contribute to the cost of existing public facilities and
             280      system improvements in the future;
             281          [(v)] (vi) the extent to which the [newly developed properties are] development activity
             282      is entitled to a credit against impact fees because the [local political subdivision or private
             283      entity, as the case may be, requires its developers or owners, by contractual arrangement or
             284      otherwise, to provide common facilities] development activity will dedicate system
             285      improvements or public facilities that will offset the demand for system improvements, inside
             286      or outside the proposed development[, that have been provided by the local political
             287      subdivision or private entity, respectively, and financed through general taxation or other
             288      means, apart from user charges, in other parts of the service area];
             289          [(vi)] (vii) extraordinary costs, if any, in servicing the newly developed properties; and
             290          [(vii)] (viii) the time-price differential inherent in fair comparisons of amounts paid at
             291      different times.
             292          (d) Each local political subdivision and private entity that prepares a written analysis
             293      under this Subsection (5) on or after July 1, 2000 shall also prepare a summary of the written
             294      analysis, designed to be understood by a lay person.
             295          (6) Each local political subdivision that adopts an impact fee enactment under Section
             296      11-36-202 on or after July 1, 2000 shall, at least 14 days before adopting the enactment, submit
             297      a copy of the written analysis required by Subsection (5)(a) and a copy of the summary
             298      required by Subsection (5)(d) to:
             299          (a) each public library within the local political subdivision;
             300          (b) the registered agent of the Utah Home Builders Association;
             301          (c) the registered agent of the Utah Association of Realtors; and
             302          (d) the registered agent of the Utah Chapter of the Associated General Contractors of
             303      America.
             304          (7) Nothing in this chapter may be construed to repeal or otherwise eliminate any


             305      impact fee in effect on the effective date of this chapter that is pledged as a source of revenues
             306      to pay bonded indebtedness that was incurred before the effective date of this chapter.
             307          Section 3. Section 11-36-202 is amended to read:
             308           11-36-202. Impact fees -- Enactment -- Required provisions -- Effective date.
             309          (1) (a) Each local political subdivision and private entity wishing to impose impact fees
             310      shall pass an impact fee enactment.
             311          (b) The impact fee imposed by that enactment may not exceed the highest fee justified
             312      by the impact fee analysis performed pursuant to Section 11-36-201 .
             313          (c) In calculating the impact fee, a local political subdivision or private entity may
             314      include:
             315          (i) the construction contract price;
             316          (ii) the cost of acquiring land, improvements, materials, and fixtures;
             317          (iii) the cost for planning, surveying, and engineering fees for services provided for and
             318      directly related to the construction of the system improvements; and
             319          (iv) debt service charges, if the political subdivision might use impact fees as a revenue
             320      stream to pay the principal and interest on bonds, notes, or other obligations issued to finance
             321      the costs of the system improvements.
             322          (d) In calculating an impact fee, a local political subdivision may not include an
             323      expense for overhead unless the expense is calculated pursuant to a methodology that is
             324      consistent with:
             325          (i) generally accepted cost accounting practices; and
             326          (ii) the methodological standards set forth by the federal Office of Management and
             327      Budget for federal grant reimbursement.
             328          (e) In calculating an impact fee, each local political subdivision shall base amounts
             329      calculated under Subsection (1)(c) on realistic estimates, and the assumptions underlying those
             330      estimates shall be disclosed in the impact fee analysis.
             331          (f) Each local political subdivision and private entity that intends to enact an impact fee
             332      enactment shall:
             333          (i) at least 14 days before the date of the public hearing:
             334          (A) make a copy of the impact fee enactment available to the public; and
             335          (B) mail a written copy of the impact fee enactment to:


             336          (I) the registered agent of the Utah Home Builders Association;
             337          (II) the registered agent of the Utah Association of Realtors; and
             338          (III) the registered agent of the Utah Chapter of the Associated General Contractors of
             339      America; and
             340          (ii) (A) for a municipality, comply with the notice and hearing requirements of, and,
             341      except as provided in Subsection 11-36-401 (4)(f), receive the protections of Sections
             342      10-9a-205 and 10-9a-801 ;
             343          (B) for a county, comply with the notice and hearing requirements of, and, except as
             344      provided in Subsection 11-36-401 (4)(f), receive the protections of Sections 17-27a-205 and
             345      17-27a-801 ; and
             346          (C) for a local district or special service district, comply with the notice and hearing
             347      requirements of, and receive the protections of, Section 17B-1-111 .
             348          (g) Nothing contained in Subsection (1)(f) may be construed to require involvement by
             349      a planning commission in the impact fee enactment process.
             350          (2) The local political subdivision or private entity shall ensure that the impact fee
             351      enactment:
             352          (a) contains:
             353          (i) a provision establishing one or more service areas within which the local political
             354      subdivision or private entity calculates and imposes impact fees for various land use categories;
             355          (ii) (A) a schedule of impact fees for each type of development activity that specifies
             356      the amount of the impact fee to be imposed for each type of system improvement; or
             357          (B) the formula that the local political subdivision or private entity, as the case may be,
             358      will use to calculate each impact fee;
             359          (iii) a provision authorizing the local political subdivision or private entity, as the case
             360      may be, to adjust the standard impact fee at the time the fee is charged to:
             361          (A) respond to:
             362          (I) unusual circumstances in specific cases; [and] or
             363          (II) a request for a prompt and individualized impact fee review for the development
             364      activity of the state or a school district or charter school; and
             365          (B) ensure that the impact fees are imposed fairly; and
             366          (iv) a provision governing calculation of the amount of the impact fee to be imposed on


             367      a particular development that permits adjustment of the amount of the fee based upon studies
             368      and data submitted by the developer; and
             369          (b) allows a developer to receive a credit against or proportionate reimbursement of an
             370      impact fee if:
             371          (i) the developer [is required by the local political subdivision, as a condition of
             372      development activity approval, to]:
             373          (A) [dedicate] dedicates land for a system improvement;
             374          (B) [improve] builds and dedicates some or all of a system improvement; or
             375          (C) [provide new construction] dedicates a public facility that the local political
             376      subdivision or private entity and the developer agree will reduce the need for a system
             377      improvement[;].
             378          [(ii) the system improvement is included in the impact fee analysis; and]
             379          [(iii) the land, improvement, or new construction provides a system improvement that
             380      exceeds the requirements for the project.]
             381          (3) (a) A local political subdivision or private entity may include a provision in an
             382      impact fee enactment that:
             383          (i) provides an impact fee exemption for:
             384          (A) development activity attributable to:
             385          [(a) exempts] (I) low income housing [and];
             386          (II) the state;
             387          (III) a school district; or
             388          (IV) a charter school; or
             389          (B) other development [activities] activity with a broad public [purposes from impact
             390      fees] purpose; and
             391          (ii) establishes one or more sources of funds other than impact fees to pay for that
             392      development activity[;].
             393          [(b) imposes an impact fee for public facility costs previously incurred by a local
             394      political subdivision or private entity, as the case may be, to the extent that new growth and
             395      development will be served by the previously constructed improvement; and]
             396          (b) An impact fee enactment that provides an impact fee exemption for development
             397      activity attributable to a school district or charter school shall allow either a school district or a


             398      charter school to qualify for the exemption on the same basis.
             399          [(c) allows] (4) A local political subdivision or private entity shall include a provision
             400      in an impact fee enactment that requires a credit against impact fees for any dedication of land
             401      for, improvement to, or new construction of, any system improvements provided by the
             402      developer if the facilities:
             403          [(i) are identified in the capital facilities plan; and]
             404          [(ii) are required by the local political subdivision as a condition of approving the
             405      development activity.]
             406          (a) are system improvements; or
             407          (b) (i) are dedicated to the public; and
             408          (ii) offset the need for an identified system improvement.
             409          [(4)] (5) [Except as provided in Subsection (3)(b), the] A local political subdivision
             410      may not impose an impact fee to:
             411          (a) cure deficiencies in a public [facilities] facility serving existing development[.]; or
             412          (b) raise the established level of service of a public facility serving existing
             413      development.
             414          (5) Notwithstanding the requirements and prohibitions of this chapter, a local political
             415      subdivision may impose and assess an impact fee for environmental mitigation when:
             416          (a) the local political subdivision has formally agreed to fund a Habitat Conservation
             417      Plan to resolve conflicts with the Endangered Species Act of 1973, 16 U.S.C. Sec 1531, et seq.
             418      or other state or federal environmental law or regulation;
             419          (b) the impact fee bears a reasonable relationship to the environmental mitigation
             420      required by the Habitat Conservation Plan; and
             421          (c) the legislative body of the local political subdivision adopts an ordinance or
             422      resolution:
             423          (i) declaring that an impact fee is required to finance the Habitat Conservation Plan;
             424          (ii) establishing periodic sunset dates for the impact fee; and
             425          (iii) requiring the legislative body to:
             426          (A) review the impact fee on those sunset dates;
             427          (B) determine whether or not the impact fee is still required to finance the Habitat
             428      Conservation Plan; and


             429          (C) affirmatively reauthorize the impact fee if the legislative body finds that the impact
             430      fee must remain in effect.
             431          [(6) Each political subdivision shall ensure that any existing impact fee for
             432      environmental mitigation meets the requirements of Subsection (5) by July 1, 1995.]
             433          [(7)] (6) Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter:
             434          (a) a municipality imposing impact fees to fund fire trucks as of the effective date of
             435      this act may impose impact fees for fire trucks until July 1, 1997; [and]
             436          (b) an impact fee to pay for a public safety facility that is a fire suppression vehicle
             437      may not be imposed with respect to land that has a zoning designation other than
             438      commercial[.];
             439          (c) an impact fee may not be imposed on a school district or charter school for a park,
             440      recreation facility, open space, or trail;
             441          (d) an impact fee may not be imposed on development activity that consists of the
             442      construction of a school, whether by a school district or a charter school, if:
             443          (i) the school is intended to replace another school, whether on the same or a different
             444      parcel; and
             445          (ii) the new school and the school being replaced are both within:
             446          (A) the boundary of the local political subdivision; or
             447          (B) the jurisdiction of the private entity; and
             448          (e) an impact fee may not be imposed on a school district or charter school unless:
             449          (i) the development resulting from the school district or charter school's development
             450      activity directly results in a need for additional system improvements for which the impact fee
             451      is imposed; and
             452          (ii) the impact fee is calculated to cover only the school district or charter school's
             453      proportionate share of the cost of those additional system improvements.
             454          [(8)] (7) Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, a local political
             455      subdivision may impose and collect impact fees on behalf of a school district if authorized by
             456      Section 53A-20-100.5 .
             457          [(9)] (8) An impact fee enactment may not take effect until 90 days after it is enacted.


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