The City shall maintain a standing Impact Fee Advisory Committee. This Impact Fee Advisory Committee shall include at least one representative of the development community and one certified public accountant. The Committee shall review and monitor the process of calculating, assessing, and spending impact fees. The Committee shall be provided with adequate financial reports on a semiannual basis, shall meet at least annually, and shall provide the City Council with a report of their findings and recommendations. The City shall provide the Committee with the appropriate advice and counsel of professional City staff and/or an appropriate professional consultant selected by the City. The City Council shall not consider or adopt any impact fees that have not been first considered by the Committee. The Impact Fee Committee shall serve in an advisory capacity to the City Council.
(Ord. 1587, 10-16-2006)
Any impact fees to fund capital improvements of the City of Kalispell shall not be approved and adopted by the City Council unless those fees have been calculated in accordance with 7-6-1602 MCA or as such statute may later be amended. Impact fees may not be imposed for remodeling, rehabilitation, or other improvements to an existing structure, or rebuilding a damaged structure, unless there is an increase in units that increase service demand as set forth by State law. If impact fees are imposed for remodeling, rehabilitation, or other improvements to an existing structure or use, only the net increase between the old and new demand may be imposed. The data sources and methodology supporting adoption and calculation of an impact fee shall be available to the public upon request.
(Ord. 1587, 10-16-2006)
A. 
Upon collection, all impact fees shall be deposited in a special proprietary fund, which shall be invested with all interest accruing to the fund.
B. 
The City may impose impact fees on behalf of local districts.
C. 
If the impact fees are not hereafter collected or spent in accordance with this Article or are not in compliance with 7-6-1602 MCA, any impact fees that were collected must be refunded to the person who owned the property at the time that the refund was due.
D. 
Unless an election is made as described below in subsection E, the Kalispell Building Department shall collect all impact fees imposed and shall collect them no earlier than the date of issuance of a building permit if a building permit is required for the development or no earlier than the time of wastewater or water service connection or well or septic permitting.
E. 
1. 
The party responsible for the payment of impact fees may elect to pay certain fees over a period of five years in five equal installments, each installment bearing an annual interest rate of 5% on the remaining principal balance. The first payment will be due and paid to the Kalispell Building Department upon application for a building permit or at the time of wastewater or water service connection or well or septic permitting. In the event the first payment is made between January 1st and June 30th the first installment payment shall be placed on the tax roll to be due November of the same year. Upon the closing of a sale of the subject property, if such sale occurs prior to full payment of the impact fees due, the balance of all impact fees due and owing shall be paid to the City of Kalispell. Upon making the election the owner of the land served by the municipal services shall execute all necessary documentation to allow an assessment to be placed against the property so served such that the balance of the amount owed shall be a lien upon the serviced property and invoiced and paid through the Flathead County offices in the same manner as other municipal assessments against the property.
2. 
The impact fees eligible for the election of installment payments shall be:
a. 
For single-family residences: water, sanitary sewer and stormwater impact fees.
b. 
For all other uses: water, sanitary sewer, stormwater and transportation impact fees in excess of $500.
3. 
All penalties and interest earned from financed impact fees shall be placed in the General Fund as an administrative fee.
(Ord. 1587, 10-16-2006; amd. Ord. 1681, 9-20-2010; Ord. 1695, 4-4-2011)
A. 
Offsets against the amount of a development impact fee due from a new development shall be provided for contributions made or to be made in the future by the affected property owner in cash, or by dedication of land, or by actual construction of all or part of a public facility or public facilities identified in an adopted CIP and meeting or exceeding the demand generated by the new development.
B. 
The amount of any excess contributions shall be determined by the Director of Public Works and the Director of Finance upon receipt of an application form requesting an offset; provided, however, that: (1) the City will make no reimbursement for excess contributions unless and until the particular development impact fee account has sufficient revenue to make the reimbursement without overdrawing the account or jeopardizing the continuity of the City's Capital Improvements Program; and (2) the excess contribution may not be transferred or credited to any other types of development impact fees calculated to be due from that development for other types of public facilities. The determination of the eligibility for and the amount of the offset shall be made by the Director of Public Works and the Director of Finance, based on the fair market value of the proposed dedication, construction, or contribution, as established by appraisals and construction receipts or construction bids, as applicable. If the applicant contents that any aspect of the City's decision constitutes an abuse of discretion, the applicant shall be entitled to appeal pursuant to Kalispell City Code 8-33.
C. 
Offsets for dedication of land or provision of public facilities shall be applicable only as to development impact fees imposed for the same types of public facilities that are proposed to be dedicated or provided. Even if the value of the dedication of land or provision of a public facility exceeds the development impact fee due for the type of public facility, the excess value may not be transferred to development impact fees calculated to be due from the applicant for other types of public facilities for which development impact fees may be imposed. Offsets for excess capacity may, however, be transferred to the same applicant or to other applicants for new development that creates a demand for the same type of public facility and which development impact fees are due pursuant to this chapter.
D. 
Any offsets or reimbursements shall be pursuant to a duly executed development agreement.
E. 
No offsets shall be given for the construction of local on-site facilities, structures, improvements, or other project improvements required by zoning, subdivision, or other City, State or Federal regulations unless the improvement is identified in the Capital Improvements Program or there is a finding that the proposed improvements meet the same need as improvements identified in the Capital Improvements Program.
(Ord. 1587, 10-16-2006; amd. Ord. 1656, 3-23-09)
Any party upon whom an impact fee has been imposed has the right to appeal the imposition or amount of the impact fee. The appellant must perfect the appeal by giving written notice of the appeal to the Building Department along with the full amount of the required impact fee, in cash or cash equivalent as an appeal bond. The form of the written notice shall be sufficient if it identifies the name and address of the appellant and a short statement giving the reason why the impact fee is wrongly imposed or in the wrong amount. Upon receiving the notice of appeal and cash bond, the Building Department official shall, within 24 hours, notify the City Manager, who will place the matter before the City Council on its next regularly scheduled City Council meeting that is more than five days following the filing of the appeal. The City Council shall hear evidence from the appellant and City staff and shall make the determination whether the impact fee imposed upon the appellant is compliant with State law and City ordinance. In the event that the City Council determines that the imposition of the impact fee is not compliant with either State law or the City ordinance, the City shall return the cash bond paid by the appellant.
(Ord. 1587, 10-16-2006)