e e e e e testing one two all right all right good evening my name is Jonathan Paul I am the principal of new Urban Concepts and tonight I'm going to be presenting the city of ovo's Mobility plan and Mobility fee uh extraordinary circumstances this is the 6:30 pm workshop on April 23rd 2024 uh extraordinary circumstances is a requirement of Florida statute um adopted by the legislature through an amendment of the impact fee act in 2021 and essentially this relates to any impact fee or any Mobility fee proposed by a local government um such as the city of oido that is looking to increase the fees above the existing rates um or update their impact fees or Mobility fees that would result in an increase uh the statutory requirements limit any increase of existing fees to 50% above the current impact fee or Mobility fee increases of 25% or less are required to be phased in in equal increments over two years and any increase between 25.1% and 50% over existing fees are phased in equal increments over a 4-year period there is one exception um that's if a local government go goes through the process and makes a finding of extraordinary circumstances that is what we are here for this evening um it requires a need study with documented findings that study must not be more than 12 months old it requires two advertised public workshops um one was held this morning April 23rd 2024 at 9:30 a.m. and this is the second Workshop held at 6:30 p.m. on the same date um the extraordinary circumstances to increase any fee does require a super majority vote of the elected officials so this will be a two3 vote of the city council to approve extraordinary circumstances um this public meeting and the meeting this morning has been properly noticed it was provided on the Public Notices for the city's website as well as current news on the city and it was also published in the Orlando Sentinel on April 13th uh an ad was run and this is an example and proof of that advertisement um there is a detailed study that has been prepared uh is referred to as a 2045 Mobility plan Mobility fee extraordinary circumstances study dated April 2024 this documents the findings of extraordinary circumstances for the city's proposed Mobility fee it provides a data and Analysis that we are going to present today uh and it is based on the 2045 Mobility plan and Mobility fee technical report dated September 2023 both of these documents are available upon request um from the city of oido the findings of extraordinary circumstances for the city to move forward with Mobility fees on the city of avito has developed a detailed Mobility plan and Mobility fee that Mobility fee is intended to replace its existing Transportation impact fee and seminal County's Mobility fee and the following are the findings that we will discuss further in this presentation uh the first finding is that the City's population over the past 30 years has grown faster than the State of Florida um it is recognized the state of Florida is one of the fastest growing states in the entire country in terms of population growth many would consider that growth extraordinary and so one metric that's been used by many communities is is your city or is your community growing faster than the State of Florida that would lead to an extraordinary growth and an extraordinary circumstance in this instance the city of avito has from 1990 to 2020 um time frame grown faster than the state of of Florida the mobility study area that we've evaluated as part of the fee update um is projected to increase as fast as the State of Florida between 2020 and 2045 uh the mobility study area is vehicle miles of travel it's essentially how many uh vehicles are on the roadway and the length those Vehicles travel is projected to increase faster than the State of Florida um the city has taken a process to develop a det sced improvements based Mobility plan which identifies multimodal projects such as roads sidewalks and bike Lanes throughout the city specifically to meet the increase in travel demand between 2020 and 2045 um the fifth factor that was been considered as a finding is since the covid-19 pandemic inflation and construction costs has increased by more than 50% during that time typically inflation runs anywhere from 3% to 5% a year which would be 9% to 15% over that same Horizon 50% inflation is extraordinary um the city's fee is also providing programs for affordable housing small retail businesses and mixed use development that will offer a lower Mobility fee for those types of projects in the final finding of circumstances as the city has transitioned to a streamlined Mobility fee schedule based on the most recent localized data changes um there has been some significant extraordinary changes into the documents that are evaluated and used to calculate impact fees and Mobility fees and that will be detailed as part of this presentation um the city of Vito's Mobility plan Mobility fee is a vision over the next 20 2 years for moving people um the mobility fee itself is a simple transparent way for new development to pay for its impact to the transportation system the city has a roadway impact fee today seal county has a Mobility fee today both of those are assessed to new development within the city and the county assesses its fee both within unincorporated County and within the city of ovo the mobility fee would be a single one-time fee assessed by the city of Ido which would replace both the city's fee and the County's fee and it would only be charged to new development it is not a tax it is not an assessment on existing um businesses or existing residents within ovido it's only towards new development so the Mobility plan is really focused on accommodating all modes of transportation whether somebody elects to to walk bicycle ride Transit use a golf cart um take Uber or lift or drive their motor vehicle uh the Mobility plan includes projects for all types of transportation and all modes of transportation there's a detailed analysis that goes into developing a plan and fee and this is just an example of that and these are the 18 steps that we undertook to develop the city's Mobility plan and Mobility fee and this is documented in a detailed technical report which why I will illustrate um shortly so the Mobility plan includes a multitude of projects um for all modes of transportation these are just some of them for what's known as on Street facilities or most people would know about bicycle Lanes whether they be an existing bicycle lane or protected or buffered bicycle lane and there's also the potential for what are known as multimodal lanes and these would also accommodate golf carts or Transit Vehicles the Mobility plan primarily focuses for people walking and bicycling on off Street facilities these are bicycle ways or Lanes sidewalks paths and trails that are actually separated from car traffic and are outside of the roadway travel Lanes most people feel more comfortable traveling on their own dedicated facility walking and bicycling as opposed to bicycling on Street the Mobility plan itself is comprised of seven different plans uh the first of which is known as a streets plan and this identifies both new roadways and the widening of existing roadways throughout the city and throughout the mobility study area and each one of these projects is detailed further in the technical report Mobility plan also includes a multimodal plan which features shared use Pathways trails and boardwalks that are proposed throughout the city and many of these are connecting to the existing trail system that exists within the city and in the surrounding areas this is just one example of a project um there is proposal along Alexandria Boulevard to reconsider the roadway from a four lane under divided section today to a two-lane roadway um possibilities include a raised median um protected on Street bicycle Lanes or a wider multi-use path the Mobility plan identifies multiple projects that could be constructed along this roadway um the ultimate configuration of Alexandria would be something that would be determined further um through a separate design proposal similarly there are proposed es to add shared use paths along Ovito Boulevard from County Road 419 all the way down to Mitchell hammock and the Mobility plan details um different configurations and different options for Vito Boulevard um depending on what the right of way is again like Alexandria Boulevard this Corridor would be further designed um as a follow on process Mobility plan also includes an intersection plan that features turn Lanes new traffic signals future roundabouts and also the possibility of a new interchange at Winter Springs Boulevard uh where it intersects with State Road 417 an access connection plan has been developed to assist City staff as they review new commercial Redevelopment and office development along some of the major corridors within the city such as Mitchell hammock and 434 and this is really an opportunity to promote connectivity between existing retail and office uses and Redevelopment along those corridors these access connections would provide alternatives to traffic going out onto the major road system Mobility plan also identifies gaps in the existing sidewalk Network today and these are primarily identified along major arterial and collector roadways within the city and finally there's a future considerations map this really identifies projects that have been discussed both within the city and within the unincorporated areas surrounding the city um each one of these is going to require further analysis by the city uh and also Community the Outreach these are not adopted as part of the Mobility plan but they're essentially noted as has improvements that have been discussed um during this process and something that may be followed up more in the future and finally the Mobility plan concludes with several action items um including a detailed sidewalk master plan which would largely look at local roadways um a safe routes to school program and also the possibility of a vision zero action plan focused on making city streets safer for all users of the transportation system now I'm going to get a little bit into more of the detail related specifically to extraordinary circumstances uh one of the factors we looked at is how fast has the city grown compared to the State of Florida um the spe the city experienced some of its greatest growth between 1990 and 2000 where the population went from just over 11,000 to over 26,000 during that time frame or an increase of roughly 131% which was significantly higher than the State of Florida um from 2000 to 20120 the city's growth rate has slowed some as its population has increased but during that time frame the population is still gone from 26,000 to over 40,000 and has been greater than the State of Florida so many would actually consider that extraordinary growth in this community the Mobility plan addresses both projects within the city of avito and within the surrounding areas of unincorporated seminal County uh specifically we looked at the travel between the southern limits of the city and Orange County and identified additional projects that are needed within this area so the mobility fee study area itself is actually larger than just City Limits and within that study area there's a projected increase in population of roughly 177,000 residents uh between 2020 and 2045 um whether that area remains unincorporated or should it eventually Annex into the city of Ido the population growth will be significant and will keep Pace with that of the State of Florida which is also expected to grow significantly during that time frame we also looked at traffic within the study area um and how that's going going to grow in relation to the projected growth overall within the State of Florida um State of Florida travel is expected to grow by 30% uh during 20 roughly over a 20-year period during that same time frame traffic would grow roughly 37% within both the city of Ido and its study area again that's fairly extraordinary growth um within the community and one of the reasons we are look looking um to recommend that the city adopt its fully calculated Mobility fee rates and that um the city does move forward with the finding of extraordinary circumstances because that growth is going to continue and is going to continue to generate demand for improvements within the city um the Mobility plan which is detailed in the technical report uh includes a number of analyses um to demonstrate how the projects in the Mobility plan specifically relate to new development how much that system is going to cost and what share of that cost is borne by new development the final factor that we've looked at in terms of a finding of extraordinary circumstance beyond the mobility fee calculation itself is the increase in inflation um throughout the country communities are feeling it um individuals are feeling it in terms of cost of food cost of housing um cost of gas and likewise we've also witnessed the same inflation within construction of roadways sidewalks and bicycle lanes and just over a three-year period which is roughly the time frame we looked at in the technical report uh from 2020 to 2023 as existing conditions there's been a 50% increase in inflation during that time frame um as I mentioned earlier typical inflations roughly 3 to 5% a year which would be anywhere from 9% to 15% during that time frame and we are looking at inflation of roughly 50% which is rather extraordinary in terms of the cost of the city providing New Roads widening roads and bike lanes and sidewalks we also look at all this as it relates specifically to the mobility fee itself and the mobility fee will be a funding source for the city to help fund the projects identified in the Mobility plan um again we looked at the mobility fee throughout the entire study area and it is based on the Mobility plan projects within the mobility study area um in terms of the assessment on new development the mobility fee will be assessed within the city of o V to new projects and then should the city of Ido Annex lands into the future um the ordinance and the technical report plans for that and as areas were to Annex into the city any new development that occurs in those would also be assessed a Mobility fee Mobility fee benefit districts um determine where the money can actually be spent once it's collected today the city's Road impact fee is only spent within the city because it only covers projects within the city itself the mobility fee addresses projects both within the city of ofo and within the overall Mobility study area so the fees could be spent anywhere within that yellow area to advance improvements identified in the Mobility plan the detailed technical report which is available from the City upon request includes all the data and Analysis in addition to all the plans and projects um projected for 245 uh it's roughly 200 plus pages of detailed analysis not going to go through all the calculations but they are there um and this is really the basis for the technical data that we've used for the finding of extraordinary circumstan um there was an analysis done of origin and destination trips throughout seal County and specifically for both the city of Ovito and the study area the area in green is the city limits um the area in red is what we refer to as the core Mobility area um the area in yellow is the study area and the area in blue are the zones that are significantly um found to have traffic that goes into and out of the city of Ido and what this analysis showed is roughly 50% of all trips that start in Ido end in Ido they don't go outside the city um people in the community stay within Ovito to shop to go to church to go to school so a large percentage of the trips stay local to the community another share of the trips go down into Orange County and then the area that I shown in blue before 94% of those trips are going into and out of the city of Ido so in essence the city of oido functions as the downtown for Eastern seminal County in terms of the mobility fee um this is intended to replace both the city's existing impact fee and the County's Mobility fee both the city's fee and the county Mobility fee charge different rates for single family homes for town homes homes and for multifam homes the mobility fee is proposed to charge a single rate for any type of residential within the city this helps to streamline the overall process U and it's more related to the actual impact of specific uses so today if a th square foot single family home came in the city of Ido uh the mobility fee would be $2,728 most COV experience single family homes that are 2,000 square ft² or greater in size so in essence you would multiply that by two but if a th000 square foot Mobility or single family home came into the city it would actually see a reduction in its fee compared to that of the city and county today which would be $3,800 more typical would be a 2200 ft² single family home with an noo the mobility fee for that would be $6,000 the combined rate today of the city's impact fee and Mobility fee is roughly $4500 which is an increase of 37% um so that 37% as of Statute requirements today would have to be phased in Over a four-year period so the city could not increase that uh Mobility fee to $6,000 without a finding of EXT ordinary circumstances um if you look at a 2700t house the mobility fee increases to $7,500 and that's a 42% increase over the existing rate um roughly when you reach to 3,000 square foot threshold any home above that would actually result in a fee that's greater than 50% um per statute that would be capped at 50% and that 42% increase in this example would have to be phased in over four years and why that's significant is in the last three years the cost of construction's gone up by 50% inflation slowing somewhat but it's still averaging between 5 and 10% a year um on construction cost so if the city were phasing in its fees Over a four-year period the city would cons consistently be behind in funding Transportation because the increase in the fee would not keep up with what's being experienced in terms of the inact and increases in inflation um if we look at a town home of, 1500 square fet the mobility fee would be roughly $4,000 the combined City Impact fee and Mobility fee of the county today is $2,800 that's a 45% increase um for a 1,000 ft² apartment the fee would be 2,720 $8 under the city's impact fee and County fee it' be $2,000 that's roughly an increase of 30% which would have to be phased in over a 4-year period And if you notice the each one of the fees for the city is $2,728 per thousand square feet it doesn't matter if it's a town home an apartment a single family home they all pay the same rate whereas today within the city's impact fee and the county Mobility fee it varies for each one of those residential uses um the city's proposed Mobility fee for affordable residential is actually lower than the city's rate today and the County's rate um the county actually does have an affordable um impact fee or Mobility fee the city does not today uh so that's part of the reason for the the large reduction uh and the city has not yet established a process to Define what's affordable residential as it relates to Mobility fees but once they do so or elect to do so and somebody qualifies their actual rate would be a reduction um over the existing Mobility fees today that's actually one of the exceptions specifically because it does reflect lower overall trip generation for affordable residential uses um for for hotels the mobility fee would increase 41% over existing rates and for mobile residents which there really aren't a lot of in the city and I don't necessarily think there's going to be more in the future but if there were that fee would actually increase by roughly 97% um for Community serving uses such as places of worship um places of assembly the mobility fee is projected to increase by 45% for nursing facilities and assisted living care it's going to increase by 25% and for private education it would increase by roughly 15% um charter schools and public schools are exempt from Impact fees and Mobility fees so the private education would just be for private schools or for daycare uses but as you can see all these percentages vary significantly and they would all have to be phased in at different rates and at different time frames under existing statute without a finding of extraordinary circumstances um the industrial rate is relatively similar uh to the fees today there is a proposal for a new outdoor commercial recreation so this would be for a golf driving range or a um a top golf type of use or go-karts any type of outdoor commercial activity that actually charges for service and there's also an indoor commercial recreation fee which is slightly lower and a lot of the mobility fees the reason for these differences is actually changes in the underlying trip generation itself not just necessarily a random Factor but the actual factors and Analysis used to calculate the fee has changed over the last five years from when the city last adopted its impact fee and from when the county last adopted its Mobility fee um office uses are projected to increase by roughly 32% and medical office uses are projected to increase by roughly 20% uh for small retail business this is something new that's been established um really this is an idea that's come out of the covid-19 uh pandemic there were a number of programs that were established to help out small local businesses and should the city elect to establish a similar program could actually offer a lower overall Mobility fee um the retail rate for Mobility fees has stayed roughly the same in part because some of the underlying factors for chip generation have become more detailed and that has resulted in what's known as high impact retail uses those uses that generate roughly 100 trips per thousand square feet um those have gone up significantly some of the underlying data that's used to calculate trip generation has materially changed between the last time fees were updated and based on the current trip generation today so that's why you see some of these overall increases such as an 86% increase in high impact retail uses and a 24% increase in retail uses um there's been Trends within the um development Community for banks and fast food restaurants to both get smaller and to add either freestanding drive-through ATM machines or add additional drive-thru lanes for fast food so this is a new fee that's actually being proposed um there's also a new fee there's car washes that are popping up throughout Florida um that are generating a significant Transportation impact so this is a new fee as well and there's been changes to the underlying trip generation which is resulting in motor vehicle fueling uh in increasing by 92% over existing rates um in terms of the bank and the fast food one of the reasons for extraordinary circumstances is Banks and fast food are not charged today for drive-throughs so when you combine that with an 86% increase in high impact retail plus a new drive-thru rate they would both greatly exceed the 50% threshold in statute um and that reason for that um really is an extraordinary change in underlying trip generation more so than just any type of random factor used to calculate Mobility fees so with that just to to recap as we're winding down the presentation current statute today limits increases to 50% above current fees um if an increase is of 25% or less those have to be phased in equal increments over a 2-year period if there's an increase between 25.1% or 0 1% and 50% they have to be phased in Over a four-year time frame with inflation continuing to run High any type of phasing in into the fees will put the city further behind in terms of funding its Transportation needs uh there is the exception which is extraordinary circumstance it requires a detailed study which is a technical report that study cannot be any older than 12 months it was completed in September of 2023 Which is less than 12 months time frame there's a requirement for two public workshops those were both held on April 23rd 2024 the first at 9:30 a.m. the second this evening at 6:30 p.m. and ultimately before any decision is made it does require a 2third vote of the city council to approve extraordinary circumstances and just to in conclusion um the extraordinary circumstance finding the city of Ido has grown faster than the State of Florida over the past 30 years and has experienced extraordinary population growth um it's projected between now and 2045 to continue to grow at an extraordinary rate similar to that of the State of Florida um there's an extraordinary projection of growth in vehicle miles of travel for the study area by 2045 that exceeds that of the State of Florida um the mobility fee itself is now based on a very detailed needs analysis and a need for multimodal projects specifically to accommodate projected growth in the study area and that new development is not being charged more than its fair share of the overall cost today the city does not have a Mobility plan um so the impact fee is just based on uh a computation based on the the need for capacity the mobility fee is actually based on very specific projects that are going to be built or projected to be built within the city over the next 20 U plus years the fifth finding for extraordinary circumstances is that there's been a significant increase in excess of 50% uh in inflation cost and construction cost over the past three years inflation continues to run High um should the city not adopt the fully calculated Mobility fees the city would continue to fall further behind in the funding of its transportation system um the city has also also established programs for Workforce housing affordable housing small retail business and mixed use developments to provide for a lower Mobility fee for different types development that actually would qualify for that and finally the update of the trip generation manual that's used throughout the country to calculate impact fees Mobility fees and trip generation has um resulted in a number of uses having much higher trip generation rates over existing fees had those existing fees and had the trip generation manual been in effect of the time the County's Mobility fee and the city's prior impact fee were calculated these overall increases would not be so significant so this really is something beyond the city's control and it is an extraordinary increase in overall impact for a number of the land uses uh so in conclusion uh it is a recommendation that the city council should adopt the mobility fee at the fully calculated rates based on the findings documented in extraordinary circumstances dated April 2024 and the data analysis in the 2045 Mobility plan and Mobility feed technical report dated September 2023 both of both of which were prepared by new Urban Concepts um the next steps is there will be a Mobility fee ordinance developed and will be presented to the um city council at a first reading they will provide Direction on whether or not to proceed to a second reading that first reading is expected sometime within the May time frame and then the actual final adoption would be within the June potentially as late as the the first part of July but essentially it would be adopted this summer and so with that that concludes my presentation and I'd be happy to answer any questions if we have any from U members of the the public that are in attendance today I just wanted to make sure I understand um understand the process um so we've never had a schedule like this before so that's kind of why we're behind is that right um not necessarily why behind the the big reason um behind being behind is one or not say behind with the for the increases uh is inflation cost so inflation's gone up dramatically since the fees were last updated uh the underlying trip Generations also changed for many uses and the cities actually also identified specific projects to meet the um growth from new development beforehand the um prior Transportation impact fee and the County's Mobility fee they're calculated on with known as a consumption based system and really all that system says is new development generates traffic that traffic needs new road capacity the road capacity costs so much per mile it isn't based on any specific project or specifically tied to new development it's just a an exercise and calculation about how much a trip basically cost under the mobility fee there's actually a whole list of projects it's detailed it's transparent and that's actually what the fee itself is calculated on so really the the transition to a um improvements based plan changes in trip generation and the increases in construction cost are the primary drivers and primary reasons why these fees are higher today than the existing County fee and the city's Transportation impact fee okay and under the new plan are all um projects now paying fees because I noticed um some of them on the list are new so they weren't paying fees before at all well any new development that comes into the city would pay today pays a City Impact fee and a county Mobility fee um in the future when they come in they would would just pay a City Mobility fee okay but any new development is paying for the fees today in terms of when I mentioned the word projects that's projects as it relates to a sidewalk a shared use path a roadway Improvement such as what's going on on on 419 today oh I mean like um maybe Banks or drive-throughs weren't paying before so they were paying per square foot of the building but they weren't necessarily paying for the drive-throughs and what's happening in the industry is banks are shrinking their footprint so they're going from historically they were around 3500 Square fet now they're going down to roughly 2,000 square fet and they're adding one two three drive-thru ATMs or automated teller machines so the the trip impacts is still there but when the fee is just based on square footage you're not capturing that any longer Because the actual square footage of the use is getting smaller um likewise many of the fast food restaurants are starting a transition to drive-throughs um they're closing their sitdown restaurants and they're largely accommodating pickup traffic from Uber from LT from door Dash in addition to more car traffic um and and those were not captured beforehand okay that would kind of seem like we would be getting less from them then because if we're basing it on square footage and they're reducing it right I if we kept it at just a square footage yes the city would be getting less okay but now it's also charging per drive-thru Lane so when you add in the cost of the drive-thru Lane which is what a lot of them are transitioning to or today say a fast food restaurant comes in Teresa I'm not sure if there's been any examples in the city there have been throughout Florida but uh a Chick-fil-A or McDonald's will come in and actually add an additional drive-thru Lane right now those they are not charged a Mobility fee or impact fee today for that drive-through Lane goinging forward if they come in and they add a drive-thru lane or they come in and they propose three drive-through Lanes they'll be charged for both the building if it's brand new plus any of the drive-through Lanes so that's not something that's captured today okay okay that was my question is everything covered or captured now with the new plan it it will be under the new fee it's not currently today okay and then there was something about there was the um there was a yellow area and a red area um and like funds could be used in the yellow but it's not really Ovito they can actually be used um both within the city of oito and within the mobility study area so we include uh improvements along portions of Chapman Road along portions of County Road 419 that traffic from the city is using and also traffic from outside is using to come into the city so today under the city's fee it can only be spent within the city limits going forward if there's a Mobility project outside of the city limits say a an extension of slavia Road the city can contribute a portion of that funding to the county to actually advance that project and part of the reason that's important is this fee is replacing the County's Mobility fee and there are County projects both within the city and within the mobility study area that need to be improved so a portion of the city's fee can be contributed or go towards County projects and there may likely be an interlocal agreement between the city and the county that sets aside anywhere from 15% to 25% of the fee for County projects if we didn't show the yellow area that money could not be spent on those County projects and several of those are are of a benefit to the city that was my question whether that was going to hurt or the city yes so so yes so so today when um seino County assesses its Mobility fee um it it it assesses um Ido at what it calls a Suburban rate so it considers Ido a suburban community and it assesses a lower rate in Sanford and Altimont um and portions along the uh us 1792 Corridor because those are considered Urban well what we found in part of our study is Ido actually functions as a downtown for all of Eastern seino County so Ido in itself is both Urban and nature and continuing to urbanize so it actually should have had a lower overall County Mobility fee but right now the county can collect that money in ovido and spend it on a sidewalk in Sanford spend it on a bike lane in Al Altimont uh vice versa they can take money from Altimont and or from Sanford and spend it in noo but that's not really the the overriding factor what is is that money can be spent anywhere within the community not directly to a benefit of the businesses and residents paying it within Ovito under this scenario all the money assessed is going to be spent either within Ovito or within that yellow area on Project that help access the city of Ido so that's a very significant change um from where we're at today and if we go with extraordinary circumstances do the fees still have to be in increments no so okay choosing to go through extraordinary circumstances allows the city to both adopt rates at the fully calculated amount So based on the the technical report the actual dollar figures that we've shown in that they can adopt it at that fully calculated rate and they're not required to phase it in so that would go into effect within 90 days after they adopt these rates as opposed to phasing in Over a four-year period and how do those um the per calculations how do they apply to residential so essentially they apply on a square footage basis so if you're building a a tiny home of 400 square foot you would pay for 400 square feet if you were building a large residential home of say 5,000 square feet you would pay for 5,000 square feet so it's the same dollar amount per square foot but it increases or decreases as a home gets larger or smaller and it's found to be a much one it more accurately reflects the overall impact of uses as homes get larger they tend to have more deliveries coming to them they have more services landscape pools other types of uses whereas smaller types of homes generally don't generate that same level of impact okay correct oh gotcha BAS it is right so so to today well the county has three tiers for residential so it kind of captures a little bit of the difference the city's fee is a flat rate so if you're a 800 sqare foot single family home or you're a 5,000 foot single home you pay the exact same rate even though there's a a marked difference in overall impact between the two of them okay because the increases are larger yes um for the res itial um but that's why it was the rate wasn't really fair previously well I mean it was it was just it was a different methodology it was a different methodology it was a different time frame um and Ovito is not you know um unique in that there's a lot of communities that have historically done it by dwelling unit but quite a few of them were transitioning to the square footage because it is a Fair overall calculation and and that's you know an office use a retail use an industrial use they're all calculated on a square footage basis so essentially that's meaning residential is calculated the same way as all of the types of land uses okay and then it's not about the fees but when we looked at the connection with the new possible new sidewalks there's nothing that's really connected throughout the whole City well that's one of the things we're trying to capture with the um really the the city's primarily focused on a system of shared use pathways on its major roads okay so those would be taking say an existing sidewalk uh that's 5 foot in width and replacing it with a path of 8 foot or a trail of 10 foot wide so it basically be widening the existing sidewalks um a good example is if you uh go out on the 419 today and you see it being constructed you'll see the new portions of 419 I'll have anywhere from a a seven to8 foot wide sidewalk or pathway up to 12T wide and then when it goes to the existing sections it's back down the 5 foot so a lot of the major roads the um the plan reflects that people feel more comfortable riding a bicycle or walking separated from tra traic so it really emphasizes shared use Pathways and trails but we've also identified along some of the roadways where we're not proposing that um closing gaps in the sidewalk system and and again Mobility fees are largely focused on major roads collectors and arterials um a sidewalk master plan would be focused more on local residential streets okay so connection is still Out Of Reach and should the city identify a sidewalk master plan or a safe route to school it'll be able to use Mobility fees for that okay but that's really a you know we talking the major road system now and that's taken it's almost been a three-year period we've been looking at that you could easily spend a year to just evaluating all your local roads and identifying a need so that would really be most communities look at a sidewalk master plan for that to close in those little gaps um in the local roadway Network okay but in terms of the the multimodal connections the pathways and the trails I mean the the Mobility plan covers a lot of the major corridors and does provide for a lot more connectivity both of the those existing roads and to the uh the city's existing trail system all the colors connect yes so all the colors connect so one the brown color is an existing Trail um the green is a brand new Standalone Trail the the um magenta color would be a brand new shared use path some of the pathways are constructed when a Road's going to be improved um some of them will be construed as part of a new roadway and other ones the green which is the most dominant one is replacing um smaller sidewalks that exist today with larger shared use pathways all right those are all great questions and um this information and this presentation will be available on the city's website for viewing both the extraordinary circumstance study um and a technical report are both available upon request um from the city um the city can be contacted with any questions as it moves forward uh with the ordinance for Mobility plans and Mobility fees and my contact information is below and this will also be available on the presentation on the city's website and we're be available to answer any questions from members of the public um that may have them and Teresa Deborah for me if I'm wrong I believe this there will also be a presentation before the the Land Development or the planning board um in addition to the city council as part of this or okay all right so there will be a presentation before the city council um in roughly the May time frame that will go over this presentation again plus the ordinance and then it is actually projected for adoption in either June or July so there will be additional chances for members of the public to provide feedback and to provide comments to the uh to the city so with that that um concludes my presentation this evening thank you all for attending and listening um and have a good evening thank you