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Impact Fees Found Arbitrary
Publication year - 1992
Publication title -
journal ‐ american water works association
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.466
H-Index - 74
eISSN - 1551-8833
pISSN - 0003-150X
DOI - 10.1002/j.1551-8833.1992.tb07368.x
Subject(s) - square (algebra) , service (business) , unit (ring theory) , foot (prosody) , civil engineering , business , engineering , mathematics , geometry , mathematics education , marketing , linguistics , philosophy
Tarpon Springs Arcade Limited owned a 1920s‐era building with 33,700 sq ft of recently remodeled interior space. It was served by a single water meter and sewer connection. In 1976, the year the city of Tarpon Springs had adopted an ordinance imposing impact fees on new or expanded water and sewer service, the building had a unit factor of not less than 35.2 for each service. The subsequent renovation did not significantly change water and sewer connections. In imposing an impact fee, a city official treated the structure square foot by square foot, not as a single structure. Arcade sued and the impact fee was refunded.