Identification of Potential Fee Structures for Land Development Reviews by the Virginia Department of Transportation

This report describes an effort to determine the costs incurred by the Virginia Department of Transportation (VDOT) when reviewing land development proposals, such as traffic impact studies, comprehensive plan amendments, rezonings, and subdivision and site plans. Cost estimates were derived from a survey of land development staff from VDOT’s districts and residencies who perform the reviews on a regular basis. The VDOT reviewers who participated in the survey were shown actual land development proposals taken from the archives of VDOT’s Culpeper District Office and asked to provide an estimate of how long it would take to review each proposal. The resulting estimates suggest that a review of even a relatively simple land development proposal will cost more than $1,000, which at the time of this writing is the statutory fee cap. The report, therefore, recommends that $1,000 be used as the fee for review of a land development proposal. The report also recommends that additional studies be conducted to develop a fee schedule that is fair and easy to administer and that recovers most of the costs VDOT incurs in performing reviews of land development proposals.

• Record URL:
  http://www.virginiadot.org/vtrc/main/online_reports/pdf/07-r20.pdf
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• Record URL:
  https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/19824
• Corporate Authors:

  Virginia Transportation Research Council

  530 Edgemont Road
  Charlottesville, VA  United States  22903

  Virginia Department of Transportation

  1401 East Broad Street
  Richmond, VA  United States  23219

  Federal Highway Administration

  1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE
  Washington, DC  United States  20590
• Authors:
  • Grimes, Matthew C
  • Howe, Roger W
• Publication Date: 2007-2

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Web
• Edition: Final Report
• Features: Appendices; Figures; References; Tables;
• Pagination: 69p

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Costs; Fees; Impact studies; Land use; Proposals; Real estate development; Subdivisions; Transportation planning
• Uncontrolled Terms: Site plan reviews
• Geographic Terms: Virginia
• Subject Areas: Administration and Management; Finance; Highways; Planning and Forecasting; Research; I10: Economics and Administration; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01046418
• Record Type: Publication
• Report/Paper Numbers: FHWA/VTRC 07-R20, VTRC 07-R20
• Contract Numbers: 83152
• Files: NTL, TRIS, USDOT, STATEDOT
• Created Date: Apr 11 2007 7:32PM