Orange County, Florida

Multi-Facility Impact Fee Study
   

Orange County, home to Disney World, has had impact fees since 1984. In 1995, Duncan Associates first looked at Orange County’s parkland dedication requirements and evaluated the benefits of converting them to impact fees. While Orange County was one of the first counties in Florida to adopt road and law enforcement impact fees, it had continued to rely on subdivision exactions for parks. In 1998, the firm was engaged to update the County’s 14-year-old road and law enforcement impact fees. The study found that the law enforcement impact fee methodology was overly

complex, based on a manpower plan that used sophisticated regression analysis to predict future law enforcement needs. It also proposed major refinements to the road impact fee methodology. The firm completed a subsequent road impact fee update in 2004 and a law enforcement impact fee update in 2005. The firm has also prepared several analyses of selected impact fee issues for the County, including reviewing proposed road impact fee credit provisions relating to proportionate share requirements and comparing alternative methodologies for dealing with lane reconstruction costs as part of road widening projects.