Impact fees getting roads built around Pima County
All that development going on in Pima County raised $19 million last year for roads that otherwise would have awaited taxpayer money to build.
The county's Impact Fee Program has been bringing in money from residential development in unincorporated areas since 1996, and a 2003 rate increase and new commercial-development impact fee helped bump up the revenue enough to get new roads built, according to a county report released this week.
The fees collected from development can be used only to expand the road system, and the money must be used in the area from which it came. That means impact fees from development in Green Valley, south of Tucson, cannot be used to build a bridge over Sabino Creek in the Catalina Foothills.
Since the fee inception, 13 projects at least partially funded by impact fees have been completed, 19 are under construction or in the design phase and 35 are planned for future construction, the 10-year report shows.
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