Tie fee structures to development densities

COUNTERPOINT

In cities across Northern Colorado, the cry continues that growth is not paying its own way.

On April 1, the City of Greeley unveiled its Cost of Development Study. Later, on April 16, the City of Fort Collins presented its Capital Expansion

Cost Study. Both studies indicate that financial resources have not kept pace with governmental capital-investment needs.

Unfortunately, a continuing emphasis is placed upon finding more ways to collect fees. In the City of Greeley study, nine Front Range cities and

Grand Junction were surveyed for governmental fees charged for residential and commercial development. Absent from the survey were costs paid

directly…