Many of the individuals who responded to the survey added narrative comments.
This is what they had to say:
Adding this increase will cause builders to increase their cost on build making the prices of homes increase as well. It’s hard in enough for people to qualify for homes in a healthy budget and adding this on top will reduce the availability options.
The city needs to fully study the detrimental impact on our residents these fees will have. Our community deserves to be able to afford to continue to live in our city and not get priced out due to fees!
Everything has increased in price! We are all struggling financially! This is a travesty!
These increases are ridiculous given the city doesn’t want to pay developers for running offsite utilities or any type of compensation and on top of that charge us more $$$ for GFCs. This will put out a lot of developers and builders for continuing.
Let's be thoughtful about this. We can't afford to further restrict the development of critically needed housing for our citizens.
I am a Construction Lender and experience first-hand shock for people attempting to build with rising costs on all fronts. You need to slow down on this and do it with proper public input. Jeff Berglund
This is insanity at it's finest for our City of Spokane government. If passed I will stop between 300 and 600 new home lots processing currently. Please vote this down.
These increases result from a spike in demand which requires massive improvements to infrastructure. The amounts have been carefully determined by trained professionals whose expertise we should acknowledge and respect.
This new fee structure hurts those who are struggling with already unattainable home prices. 38k added to home cost will increase the monthly mortgage payment by $320 per month on a 15yr loan. This will cost a family $2/hr off an income.
The inept development/ housing creation acumen at the city council is staggering. This plan lacks foresight or logical thought from council on behalf of developers. Not one council member has development experience to make these decisions.
There are already connection fees for new services. The City should stop allocating $$$ to other things and return funding to infrastructure. There is no way this is even close to helping with the affordable housing crisis.
This is going to dramatically hurt building & developing. Costs are already high, & building & developing are difficult & risky endeavors in this climate of rising interest rates.The City needs to use increased prop tax revenue to offset these costs.
Housing affordability continues to be a problem and this greatly adds to the cost of new construction which will limit new supply of homes and apartments. The reduced supply will compound the existing housing affordability issues
This will be extremely detrimental to building in Spokane. There is already a housing shortage and this will make it worse. The City needs to use increased property tax revenue to fund these expenses.
