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HomeMy WebLinkAbout03-06-14 Impact Fee Advisory Committee meeting materialsDevelopment Review Division Policy and Planning Division Building Division CITY OF BOZEMAN DEPARTMENT OF COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT Alfred M. Stiff Professional Building 20 East Olive Street P.O. Box 1230 Bozeman, Montana 59771-1230 phone 406-582-2260 fax 406-582-2263 planning@bozeman.net www.bozeman.net TO: IMPACT FEE ADVISORY COMMITTEE FROM: CHRIS SAUNDERS RE: AMENDMENT TO TRANSPORTATION IMPACT FEE CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT PROGRAM DATE: FEBRUARY 27, 2014 This action item has two components. Both are to amend the Transportation impact fee CIP. The first is to add a new project and the second is to modify the timing of an existing project. The City has adopted transportation impact fees to help provide for additional capacity in the arterial and collector streets to provide service to new development within the community. The fees are spent to widen streets, install intersection control, and take related actions to increase capacity. A full description of the impact fee program is given in Division 2.06.9, Impact Fees, in the Bozeman Municipal Code. The City has established five criteria which must be satisfied before expending impact fees. See 2.06.1690, BMC. These are: • Capacity expansion • Not project related • Timely request • CIP listed • CIP funded. Included in these criteria is that a project must be included on the City’s impact fee capital improvement list and funded on that list. Listing and funding on the CIP indicates that a particular project is a community priority. The amendment to add this project to the CIP will facilitate an impact fee credit request by Town Pump. The project would then be funded by a combination of public and private funds with each bearing its proportionate share. Final cost share is determined at the conclusion of the project when all final costs have been determined. The Transportation Impact Fee fund has an adequate balance to support these additional projects. The Cottonwood project is currently being designed. Once design has been completed a more specific estimate of cost share can be identified. Project 1) Consider amendment to the FY 2015 Transportation Impact Fee Capital Improvement Program to add the widening of Cottonwood Road from Fallon Street to Alpha Drive. On August 12, 2013 the City Commission approved a conditional use permit for Town Pump to construct a fueling station and convenience store at the intersection of Cottonwood Road and Huffine Lane. The conditions of approval included the two below. 8. Cottonwood Road shall be constructed to the full principal arterial standard of the current Bozeman Area Transportation Plan across the entire property frontage and be provided with Page 2 street lighting meeting City of Bozeman design standards [ANSI/IESNA RP-8-00]. A roadway taper shall be constructed in accordance with AASHTO standards beginning at the south property line and connectin g back to the existing roadway. Cottonwood Road is a designated state secondary route (No. 345) under the control of the Montana Department of Transportation; thus, all improvements to the roadway, including access approaches, shall be reviewed and approved by MDT prior to construction. A building permit shall not be issued until the roadway construction is substantially completed unless the project is approved for concurrent construction under provisions of Section 38.39.030.C Unified Development Code. The improved roadway shall be accepted by MDT and the City prior to issuance of final occupancy for the site. 9. The south leg of the intersection of Cottonwood Road and Huffine Lane shall be improved to accommodate a full principal arterial standard roadway. All intersection improvements and signalization upgrades shall be reviewed and approved by MDT prior to construction. A building permit shall not be issued until the intersection improvements and signalization upgrades are substantially completed unless the project is approved for concurrent construction under provisions of Section 38.39.030.C Unified Development Code. The improved intersection and signalization upgrades shall be accepted by MDT prior to issuance of final occupancy for the site. As noted in the conditions of approval, the Montana Department of Transportation (MDT) controls Huffine Lane and Cottonwood Road south of Huffine Lane. The applicants have been pursuing design of the required expansion to Cottonwood Road adjacent to their property. MDT has indicated that they require that the north and south approaches to Huffine Lane match. This means that the northern section of Cottonwood Road/Huffine intersection will need to be constructed to the same configuration as the southern side adjacent to the Town Pump project. Staff was not aware of this requirement last fall when the annual CIP was being prepared. Planning and Engineering staff have examined the existing configuration of Cottonwood Road, the required improvements for Town Pump and the existing Transportation Impact Fee Capital Improvements Program. Staff is of the opinion that the best option under the current conditions is to add the Cottonwood Road improvements to the CIP and construct a larger project of 0.4 miles. This meets the timing desired by Town Pump and will provide additional street capacity in a rapidly growing area of town. Funding for the project will be from four sources. Impact fees are expected to provide the majority of the amount. There is an existing minimum roadway north and south of Huffine Lane. The additional lane expansions, except for a small portion immediately adjacent to the Town Pump site, will be impact fee eligible. Town Pump will be responsible for the curbs, gutter, sidewalk, and some lane area adjacent to their project. The City will use other maintenance funds to do some repair work on the existing lanes as part of the overall project. Some sidewalk installation will be required by three other private parties located along the corridor who have not already installed sidewalks. The expansion of Cottonwood Road north of Babcock Street is already on the CIP with design to begin in Fiscal Year 2015 and construction to occur in Fiscal Year 2016. This is a separate project, SIF36, and is not adjacent to the work in the proposed amendment. Page 3 The City’s major street system is established through the long range transportation planning process. The map of the major street network is shown on Figure 9-2, Existing Major Street Network and Future Right-Of-Way Corridor Needs. Cottonwood Avenue is shown as a principal arterial. The functional classification of streets is described in more detail in Section 9.1 in the City’s transportation plan. Cottonwood Road is within the defined transportation system. Project 2) Move Project SIF02, improvements to Baxter Lane to be a scheduled item in FY 2015. This project is described in the CIP as “Reconstruct Baxter Lane from 19th Avenue to Cottonwood to a Minor Arterial standard as shown in the Transportation Plan. Continued development in the northwest quadrant of the city will be sustained by having this important east-west arterial improved to a complete street standard.” Presently the project is placed in the unscheduled column. It is proposed to move the project to FY 2015. It is not expected that the entire project may be undertaken at once. However, there are two subdivision projects at either end which will be likely to be making improvements to sections of Baxter Lane in the near term. The installation of a traffic signal at Davis Lane and Baxter Lane is presently listed in FY 2015 as SIF42. There will be significant improvements to Baxter Lane needed as part of that project. Moving this project will enable improvements to Baxter Lane in coordination with adjacent private development which is expected to be more cost effective. The City Commission is scheduled to consider this CIP amendment on March 24, 2014.