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2.99 -O- How does AA fund the FDDs that they mandate in the target areas? Does the city ever receive any payments for mitigation? From developers or from the townships?

Posted by Lori Byron on 10 Jan, 2014
Category: Category 2 - about potential recommendations

Frank Burdick’s Log Number: N/A
Submitted by: Houk
Category (1,2,3): 2
Status: Open
Estimated date to address: January 31, 2014

How does AA fund the FDDs that they mandate in the target areas? Does the city ever receive any payments for mitigation?  From developers or from the townships?

Comments

Frank Burdick on 20 Jan, 2014:

The City continues to approve numerous projects since the mortitorium on FDD has been in place.  Projects such as 413 East Huron, Pizza House, Briarwood Mall out-parcels, UM Munger Graduate Dormitory, an many others, all have been approved with the requirement to have FDD credits as part of the development fee.  In the case of 413 E Huron, 59 FDD credits are required and the developer must pay for $59,000 in fees for these credits. Where are the FDDs to be performed IF the moritorium as currently in place is not lifted?  

Frank Burdick on 20 Jan, 2014:

C. Hupy and N. Hutchinson have stated in emails and,  recently, in public at the 9Jan CAC meeting that DOM fees can and have been used for mitigation projects other than private property FDDs.  Please provide a comprehensive list indicating these other types of projects (including dates and locations), where DOM fees were utilized.

Lori Byron on 5 Feb, 2014:

[CITY] 
The FDD program is funded from the Sanitary Sewer Fund, which is funded from user rates or bond sales.  Developer Offset Mitigation (DOM) is performed by, and at the expense of, the developer.  The developer covers all of the costs for the mitigation work.  Developments within Townships that contribute flow to the City’s system are required to perform developer mitigation in the same manner.   

The single exception was for one project by the University of Michigan, which had at the time constraints against use of its capital funds off-site.  Because they owned no sites within the required mitigation area for the Michigan Stadium Renovation Project, they were unable to perform the FDDs themselves; so, the University contributed funds to the City to cover the costs of the FDDs for its required offset mitigation.

Frank Burdick on 5 Feb, 2014:

Please ANSWER THE QUESTIONS!!!