Portland City Code ch. 14

Citation: Portland City Code ch. 14
Parent Document: Portland City Code ch. 14
Jurisdiction: Portland (municipal)
Original Source: https://www.portlandmaine.gov/asset/ae8cabd1-66eb-4a1c-9224-92bbca5e792f ↗
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shall be dedicated for funding of the improvements     16.11 REVIEW AND REVISION
for which the fee is collected, as determined          The impact fees established in this ordinance are
through the City’s most recent Impact Fee Study.       based upon the best estimates of the costs of the
Funds from these accounts shall be distributed to      construction of the facilities for which the fees are
City departments solely for the purpose of capital     collected as determined through the City’s most
projects identified in the City of Portland’s most     recent Impact Fee Study. The Council may, by
recent Impact Fee Study.                               amendments to this ordinance, change the amounts
                                                       of the impact fees from time to time as warranted
16.9 USE OF IMPACT FEES                                by new information or changed circumstances.
Impact fees collected by the City pursuant to this
ordinance may be used only for financing facility      16.12 ADMINISTRATIVE RULES AND
                                                            REGULATIONS
improvements which the City Council, through the
                                                       The Planning Board is hereby authorized to develop
City of Portland’s most recent Impact Fee Study,
                                                       rules and regulations governing the administration
has determined are made necessary by new
                                                       of impact fees collected pursuant to this ordinance.
development. The City Council has determined that
fees imposed by schedules in this ordinance are        16.13 EFFECTIVE DATE
reasonably related to the demands created by new       The provisions of this article shall apply to all
development. Impact fees collected pursuant to this    building permit applications submitted following
ordinance shall be used exclusively for capital        December 19, 2018, with the exception that any
improvements, and the City of Portland shall expend    development for whom site plan approval has been
funds collected from impact fees solely for the        granted as of December 19, 2018 shall be considered
purposes for which they were collected.                exempt. Master development plan approval prior
                                                       to the effective date shall not confer exempt status.
16.10 REFUND OF UNUSED IMPACT FEES
Impact fees collected pursuant to this ordinance
shall be used by the City according to the schedules
for the completion of specific capital improvements
as specified in the City of Portland’s most recent
Impact Fee Study, but in no event later than ten
years after the date upon which the impact fee was
collected. Any impact fees which are not so used
and any impact fees collected which exceed the
City’s actual costs of implementing the
infrastructure improvements for which such fees
were collected shall be refunded. Refunds shall be
paid to the owner of record of the property for
which the impact fee was collected, determined as
of the date the refund is made. 16-4 | CITY OF PORTLAND LAND USE CODE HISTORIC PRESERVATION
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