By Justin Matthews | Pinal Post
Key Points
The Meeting
- The town’s consultant presented draft impact fees at the April 15 council meeting. No action was taken.
- Impact fees are one-time charges paid by developers when a building permit is issued.
Proposed Fees
- A single-family home would pay about $6,200. Multi-family units would pay about $3,100 and mobile homes about $5,100.
- Fees will drop once a required tax credit is calculated.
- Pinal County currently charges about $3,300 for a single-family home in the area.
- At the April 1 council meeting, Public Works Director Chris Wanamaker said Pinal County’s current impact fees are about half of what they should have been.
- Wanamaker also said some developers paid no fees at all under binding agreements with the county that are still in effect.
Roads
- The study projects about $37 million in street fee revenue over 10 years.
- Roads now cost $2 million per lane mile to build.
Parks
- San Tan Valley has no town parks today.
- To collect $3.2 million in park fees, the town must first invest about $19.4 million of its own money.
- A 2023 county plan envisions a $150 million park system with a 100-acre central campus and two district parks.
- Billingsley said most county park fees paid by San Tan Valley residents were spent elsewhere.
