§ 107-13. Exemption policy.

(a)

The City of Sandy Springs recognizes that certain office, retail trade, hospitality and other business development projects provide extraordinary benefit in support of the economic advancement of the city's citizens over and above the access to jobs, goods and services that such uses offer in general. In addition, the city recognizes that fees, in some circumstances, can negatively affect the affordability of housing, particularly "workforce" housing. To encourage such development projects of public benefit to Sandy Springs, the city council may consider granting a reduction in the impact fee for a business development project upon the determination and relative to the extent that the project represents extraordinary economic development and employment growth, or that the affordability of a housing project may be increased, in accordance with exemption criteria adopted in this section.

(b)

It is also recognized that the cost of system improvements otherwise foregone through exemption of any impact fee must be funded through revenue sources other than impact fees.

( Ord. No. 2016-10-33 , § I, 10-18-2016)