Draft resolution calling for SDC reform

Provided by the Eugene Police Commission

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WHEREAS, Population growth can have significant impacts on the demand for municipal services and the infrastructure needed to deliver those services;

WHEREAS, ORS 223.297 allows jurisdictions to administer system development charges to help offset the costs of capital facilities for transportation, parks and recreation facilities, water distribution and treatment, waste water and drainage systems;

WHEREAS, Public safety (police, fire and emergency medical services) is an essential municipal government function that experiences similar demands from new development as the facilities list above;

WHEREAS, Accommodating the costs of growth, in the absence of a fair revenue recovery mechanism, often results in reductions in services and inadequate maintenance of existing facilities;

WHEREAS, Many jurisdictions in Oregon have significant unmet public safety capital facilities needs;

WHEREAS, Public safety service providers are experiencing increased emergency management and related responsibilities in the post September 11, 2001 environment;

WHEREAS, Public safety impact fees are in use by local jurisdictions in other states as a fair and equitable way to ease the financial burden of new growth on the existing population;

WHEREAS, the State should not preempt local jurisdictions’ authority to develop revenue-generating options that are appropriate to the impacted community;

THEREFORE, ORS 223.299 should be amended to include public safety facilities as an allowable use for the collection of system development charges.

ADOPTED by the _______________________,
this _____day of ____________, 2002

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