Form Center

2. 1. Impact fees are one-time fees charged to new development that are used to defray some of the costs of providing additional public facilities. Impact fees also help ensure that new development pays for the public facilities it requires, rather than these costs being borne by all taxpayers in the community. Do you support creating an Impact Fee Program for the City of Savannah?*

   1. Strongly agree
   2. Somewhat agree
   3. Neither agree nor disagree
   4. Somewhat disagree
   5. Strongly disagree
4. If the City were to approve an Impact Fee Program, Mayor and Aldermen have the ability to exempt particular development projects from all or part of the established impact fee amounts on the Impact Fee Schedule. Note that any amount of money granted as an exemption must be reimbursed by the City from revenue other than impact fees.
6. 2. Do you support adopting an exemption for affordable housing?*

   1. Strongly agree
   2. Somewhat agree
   3. Neither agree nor disagree
   4. Somewhat disagree
   5. Strongly disagree
8. 3. Should there be a 100% exemption for affordable housing?*

   1. Strongly agree
   2. Somewhat agree
   3. Neither agree nor disagree
   4. Somewhat disagree
   5. Strongly disagree
10. 4. Do you support adopting an exemption for extraordinary economic or employment growth? Note the State statute does not define extraordinary economic or employment growth. *

    1. Strongly agree
    2. Somewhat agree
    3. Neither agree nor disagree
    4. Somewhat disagree
    5. Strongly disagree
12. 5. Should there be a 100% exemption for extraordinary economic or employment growth? Note the State statute does not define extraordinary economic or employment growth.*

    1. Strongly agree
    2. Somewhat agree
    3. Neither agree nor disagree
    4. Somewhat disagree
    5. Strongly disagree
14. Please explain what types of extraordinary economic or employment growth should be exempt:

    (optional)

16. 6. The Methodology Report–presented to Council on June 23, 2022—calculated a maximum impact fee of almost $6,000 that could be charged per dwelling unit. What do you think of this ceiling? Is it: *

    1. An appropriate fee
    2. Too high
    3. Too low
    4. It depends on the type of dwelling (e.g. detached single-family, townhouse, apartment).
18. Comments:

    (optional)

20. 7. If you view the overall fee of almost $6,000 as being too high, what is a lower fee you are comfortable adopting? *

    1. 1% of the average sales price of new homes ($393,085) over the past 12 months, or $3,931
    2. I’m not sure
    3. Other: Specific number/range(use space below)
22. Other
24. 8. If you view the overall fee of almost $6,000 as being too high for a residential dwelling unit, which public facility category fee would you reduce the most in order to reduce the total impact fee? *

    1. Fire Protection
    2. Parks and Recreation
    3. Police Protection
    4. Road Improvements
26. Comments:

    (optional)

28. 9. Please use this area to share any thoughts about the proposed impact fee program that staff should be aware of.
Leave This Blank:


30. 1. Receive an email copy of this form.
31. Email address

    This field is not part of the form submission.

32. Submit

* indicates a required field