This study introduces readers to principle of school impact fee in the U.S.A. for reform of korean system. School impact fees are a way they have found to shift the burden of paying for new school facilities to new development. School impact fees are ...
This study introduces readers to principle of school impact fee in the U.S.A. for reform of korean system. School impact fees are a way they have found to shift the burden of paying for new school facilities to new development. School impact fees are relative newcomers to the legal scene. precedents for them exist in subdivision dedication requirements and utility charges.
Courts-especially state courts require that such fees meet a “rational nexus” test. Courts require that school impact fees not exceed a pro rata share of reasonably anticipated costs of expansion and that monies thus collected only be spent to meet the costs of such expansion.
This study describes the basis for that test. its more sophisticated forms. and some applications to particular types of fees. The implication of that decision for planning practice is that planners need to conduct more complete background studies than they have done in the past to support a legally defensible development fee program.
This Study review how local government may apply the rational nexus test to attribute facility improvement costs to new development and discuss how to determine whether fee payers adequately benefit from the fees they pay, and how to calculate impact fees.