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Article: BATTLE GROUND EYES TRAFFIC IMPACT FEES
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- The Columbian (Vancouver, WA)
- Article date:
- April 7, 1998
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JEFF MIZE
The Columbian
04-07-1998
BATTLE GROUND — In two weeks, the City Council will be asked to adopt traffic impact fees, a move that would add $2,869 to the cost of a new single-family home.
The council got its first look Monday night at the cost for tacking a charge on development to help pay for street improvements.
The proposed fee for single-family residences would be among the highest in Clark County.
There appears to be consensus on the seven-member council that traffic impact fees are needed in a city that has been overwhelmed by residential growth during the second half of the 1990s.
The real question is whether the council will go along with the fees ...