What is the difference between standards-driven and improvements-driven fee methodologies?
Standards-driven impact fees are based on the cost of existing or desired levels of service (e.g. 5 acres of parks per 1,000 residents). Improvements-driven impact fees are determined by allocating the cost of specific planned improvements needed to serve a specific amount of new development over a specific period of time. Standards-driven impact fees are alternatively referred to as demand-, consumption- or incremental-driven fees; and improvements-driven impact fees are also called plan-driven fees.
