HB 479 - NYU Furman Center

State Land Use Enacted Legislation

Bill #	State	Year	Party	Topic
HB 479	FL	2024	R	Impact fees

Provided by Furman

Summary

Requires that if an applicant satisfies the local comprehensive plan’s transportation impact mitigation requirements, through construction or payment, transportation impacts are considered fully mitigated and a local government cannot prevent the project from proceeding.
Allows local governments that repeal concurrency to adopt either a mobility-plan and fee-based or non-mobility alternative transportation system.

“Mobility plan” means an alternative transportation system mobility study developed by using a plan-based methodology and adopted into a local government comprehensive plan that promotes a compact, mixed use, and interconnected development served by a multimodal transportation system in an area that is urban in character, or designated to be urban in character.
“Mobility fee” means a local government fee schedule established by ordinance and based on the projects included in the local government’s adopted mobility plan.

Counties and municipalities must execute interlocal agreements if both charge transportation fees for the same development.

Creates default rules if no interlocal agreement is executed by October 1, 2025.
Requires impact fees to be calculated using the most recent and localized data, not older than 4 years.
Requires local governments to adopt any new impact fee study within 12 months of initiating it, if they use it to increase the fee.

Developers receive dollar-for-dollar credits for monetary contributions.
Existing road impact fee credits retain their full value if a government transitions to a mobility-fee system.