Article: Gilroy, Calif., plan to double traffic impact fees worries development leader.

By Katie Niekerk, The Dispatch, Gilroy, Calif. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

Oct. 4--GILROY, Calif. -- The city's economic development director is challenging the city council to seriously reconsider how doubling traffic impact fees would affect Gilroy's future by scaring away potential development.

If council approves the proposed traffic impact fees, developers in Gilroy would be forced to pay a substantial increase from what they are now.

That cost likely would be passed on to consumers.

Impact fees are the up-front fees that residential, commercial and industrial developers pay for new buildings. The money goes into ...

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