Residents of newly constructed homes will see higher water and sewer fees, as well as impact fees, after a vote this week of the Grass Valley City Council.
For a single-family home the impact fee will rise from $5,115 to $5,279, or $164 more per year. The increase will take effect Sept. 1.
Impact fees are one-time fees assessed when a structure is built.
“For people who move into these new units, they do use police and fire services, use the roads, the parks, so the fees are impacts offsetting having more people come into the city and having it grow,” Mayor Ben Aguilar said. “If we don’t have these fees, all of the departments will have more calls, but won’t have the resource funds to handle all that.”
Two pools will take the place of the existing Memorial Park pool in Grass Valley, once the work is completed.
“We’ve graded out the sites and we’re waiting on plans for the new pools within the next couple of weeks, and hope to have preliminary approval,” said Bjorn Jones, assistant city engineer for Grass Valley. “The old pool is completely gone. We’re finalizing the design for the new pool before we start excavation for that.”
The competition pool will have eight lanes 25-meters long for racing. It will have a 2 meter depth to allow for racing. There will be no diving board or platform, only starter blocks.
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