Uses of Fees or Alternatives to Fund Transit (2008)

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30 APPENDIX A TRB Survey TCRP J-5, Study Topic 9-02 Use of Fees or Alternatives to Fund Transit Questionnaire The Transportation Research Board has retained a consultant to do a study with the goal of ascertaining the extent to which impact fees, benefit assessments and benefit districts have been used to fund transit, the scope of enabling legislation, the restrictions imposed by state constitutions and statutes and the extent to which pro- posed and/or implemented impact fee programs have passed United States Constitutional muster. The purpose of this survey is to collect information from transit systems, companies and other institutions in- volved in the transit industry to develop an industry-wide perspective on the successful use of impact fees, bene- fit assessments and benefit districts for transit purposes and the hurdles and obstacles in the respective States to impact fees, benefit assessments and benefit districts. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. Please provide the name and address of your agency or firm. ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________ 2. Please provide the name, telephone number and email address of an appropriate contact person who is primarily responsible for legal or finance matters for your agency or firm. Name: ________________________________________________________________________ Telephone: ____________________________________________________________________ Email: ________________________________________________________________________ 3. Has your State legislature adopted legislation which authorizes the imposition of impact fees or exactions to finance transit-related projects associated with development? Yes______ • No •_____ If no, please skip to question 14 below. 4. If yes, please give the citation of the legislation or e-mail, fax or mail the text of the legislation. _________________________________________________________________ 4.a. Is this legislation a statewide enabling statute or a delegation to certain municipalities? ________________________________________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________ 4.b. Please give the citation of any applicable local ordinance: ________________________________________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________ 5. Please describe the formula for calculating or the actual calculation of the impact fee or exaction: ________________________________________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________________ 6. Please describe the manner in which the proceeds from the fee will be used to serve the developments which pay the fee: ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________________________ 7. Please describe when and under what conditions payments begin and provisions for lack of payment: ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________________________ 8. Please describe any model legislation or projects, case law or other planning and policy based research that you may know of that was consulted when preparing the for- mula:__________________________________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________________________ ________________

31 9. As you know, impact fees may be challenged on one of several bases: violation of equal protection; failure to provide due process; the imposition of double taxation; and the formula for calculating or actual calculation of the fee. Was the validity of this legislation, constitutional or otherwise, challenged in litigation? Yes______ • No______ • 9.a. If yes, Please give the case citation (or citations): __________________________________________________________________ 9.b. Please briefly describe the issues raised in the case (or cases): ________________________________________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________ 10. Has your state or municipality’s transit-related impact fee legislation and /or local ordinance been imple- mented to fund transit projects? Yes_____ • No _____• 10.a. If yes, please describe the project, including a description of the formula for calculating and/or the ac- tual calculation of the fee, and attach or list any additional materials which may by publicly available which describe the project. ________________________________________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________ 11. If you answered yes to 10 above, was this a new project or the extension and/or improvement of an exist- ing facility? ________________________________________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________ 12. If you answered yes to 10 above, please describe the size of the population and the rate of growth of the community or communities served by the transit project or projects: ________________________________________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________ 13. If you answered yes to 10 above, what is the property tax rate in the community or communities served by the transit project or projects: ________________________________________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________ 14. If you answered no to question 3 above, was transit-related impact fee legislation ever proposed and re- jected by the State legislature? Yes_____ • No _____• 14.a. If yes, in what year or years and on what basis? ________________________________________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________ 15. If you answered no to question 3 above, was transit-related impact fee legislation ever adopted by the leg- islature and vetoed by the Governor? Yes_____ • No_____ • 15.a. If yes, in what year or years and on what basis? ________________________________________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________ 16. If you answered no to question 3 above, is impact fee legislation currently under consideration? Yes_____ • No_____ • 16.a. If yes, please give citation to proposed legislation: _______________________ 17. Please add or share anything in your experience which relates to impact fees or exactions for transit pur- poses which I may not have asked in this survey: ________________________________________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________________________ _________________ 18. May I call you for a telephone interview regarding your responses? Yes_____ • No_____ • 18.a. If yes, please leave a phone number where I may make an appointment for an interview: _________________________________________________________