Regional Development Impact Fees

The Transportation Agency for Monterey County is working to establish a Regional Development Impact Fee program in Monterey County to account for the proportional impact of new development on regional transportation infrastructure, and further streamline the existing system for analyzing and mitigating transportation impacts.

Task Force

Regional Impact Fee Nexus Study Update (PDF)

Fee Program Effective Date Certification (PDF)

Fee Implementation Guidelines (PDF) - Updated December 3, 2008

Fee Implementation Workshop Presentation - August 22, 2008 (PDF)

Fee Calculation Worksheet (XLS)

To maximize safety and minimize congestion for Monterey County’s travelers, adequate transportation infrastructure must be available to serve population growth and land use development identified in adopted general plans across the county. The proposed Regional Development Impact Fee program is being developed to provide a mechanism through which “growth pays for growth” and the county’s projected transportation needs can be met.

The Transportation Agency's Regional Development Impact Fee streamlines the existing ad hoc environmental review system. Regional transportation impacts of planned development across the county are analyzed through the program, eliminating the need for expensive traffic analyses from each new development project, and the current lengthy negotiations over appropriate mitigations. In instances where a local traffic impact fee is already assessed, the local and cumulative traffic impacts of development would be accounted for through payment of fees. No additional analysis is required aside from that which is needed to address the localized, project-specific impacts of new development on surrounding transportation infrastructure.

The Regional Development Impact Fee Nexus Study Update provides more detail on how the regional fee program was developed, as well as the proposed 4-zone fee schedule. The Regional Fee program has been approved by the requisite number of city councils and the County Board of Supervisors and will go into effect August 27, 2008.