Kansas City, Missouri

Road Impact Fee Study
   

For the City of Kansas City, Duncan Associates designed an arterial street impact fee that encourages infill development in older central city areas. Initially, the area north of the Missouri River was chosen by the City Council for study since it was where most of the City’s new growth was occurring. After adoption of the Northland study, the City Council decided to prepare a fee study for the area south of the river. The analysis addressed such technical details as the ability of the City to advance construction funds and recover them from impact fees, use of credits for existing or

future contributions by developers, implementation of policy matters through impact fees (such as encouraging particular types of development), and required planning and analytical basis for impact fees in Missouri. In the study, the build-out of the major street plan was used to determine average cost per unit of capacity. In order to encourage infill and redevelopment in older areas of the community, and in recognition that the arterial system in these areas was for the most part already in place, areas that were within the City prior to 1950 were excluded from service areas where impact fees were assessed. The City Council adopted the fees, making it the first city in the state of Missouri to adopt road impact fees.