HomeMy WebLinkAboutImpact Fee Criteria Sheet.pdfImpact Fee Funds Criteria (Street, Fire, Water & Wastewater Impact
Fees)
Criteria were developed for ranking projects in the Impact Fee Funds in order to better
communicate to the public about the use of Impact Fee money and allocate scarce
resources to the most worthwhile project. The following Criteria were developed by the
Impact Fee Advisory Committee and adopted by the Commission in the fall of 2011.
Criteria Rating Notes Project
Score
1. REQUIRED Yes/No Infrastructure, Capital, or Debt Payment on Infrastructure or
Capital Purchase. (Cannot be used for operations or
maintenances costs.) MCA 7-6-1602(e)
2. REQUIRED Yes/No Useful Life of 10 Years or more. MCA 7-6-1601(1)(a)
3. REQUIRED Yes/No Improvements or Equipment made necessary by New
Development since the inception of the Impact Fee Program.
(MCA 7-6-1602 (7) & 7-6-1603(3)
4. Benefits to
Impact Fee
Payers
Up to 20
pts
20 – Project facilitates development of numerous city
properties, or potential city properties, in the immediate or
near future (1-2 Years.)
10 – Project facilitates development of numerous properties in
3-5 Years, or immediate development of a small area of
property.
5 – Project will likely facilitates development within 5-10 Years.
0 – Project will address development that has occurred since
1995, but will not likely facilitate new development.
5. Direct
Benefits
Up to 10
pts
10 – Direct Benefit to all system users, or Provides a “final link”
in a piece of existing system infrastructure.
5 – Direct benefit to roughly half, or indirect benefit to all
system users.
2 – Direct benefit to small area of the system users or indirect
benefit to several areas of system users.
6. Funding Up to 10
pts
10 – Certain. No other funding options are available and/or All
other required project funding is ready-to-proceed.
5 – Uncertain. Project is dependent on a mix of other funding
sources that are not ready-to-proceed.
0 – Extremely Uncertain or Unlikely. Elements of Funding are
deemed very unworkable or unlikely.
7. Commission
Work Plan
Up to 10
pts
10 – Identified project in Adopted Commission Work Plan
5 – Contributes to an indentified project in the Adopted
Commission Work Plan.
0 – Not identified in Adopted Commission Work Plan.
TOTAL Up to 50
pts.