City of Burlington in the Year Two Thousand Twenty-Five an Ordinance in Relation to Comprehensive Development Ordinance Impact Fees ZA-25-08

ORDINANCE 7.5
Sponsors: Planning, Planning Commission, Ordinance Committee

Public Hearing Date: 07/14/25
First Reading: 05/19/25
Referred to: Ordinance Committee
Second reading: 07/14/25
Action: adopted
Date: 07/14/25
Published: 07/23/25
Effective: 08/12/25

It is hereby Ordained by the City Council of the City of Burlington as follows:

That Appendix A-Burlington Comprehensive Development Ordinance of the Code of Ordinances of the City of Burlington be and hereby amends Article 3, Applications, Permits, and Project Review, Part 3, Impact Fees, by amending Sec. 3.3.1, Purpose, and deleting Sections 3.3.2 – 3.3.11, thereof to read as follows:

Part 3: Impact Fees

Sec. 3.3.1 Applicability Purpose

These regulations are enacted to enable the city to require the beneficiaries of new development to pay their proportionate share of the cost of municipal and school capital projects which benefit them, and to require them to pay for or mitigate the negative effects of development in the community. Impact Fees shall be pursuant to the Administrative Regulations adopted under Burlington’s Code of Ordinance Section 21-41.

***Sec 3.3.2 to Sec. 3.3.11 deleted in its entirety.

***Entire amendment, including deleted language, available at:

https://burlingtonvt.portal.civicclerk.com/event/8181/files/attachment/10144

* Material stricken out deleted.

** Material underlined added.

Ordinances 2025/ZA-25-08 Impact Fees

Secs. 3.3.1 – 3.3.11

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