Read the full article by Ben van der Meer at Sacramento Business Journal
A U.S. Supreme Court case could upend how jurisdictions rationalize development impact fees — and started with a project in El Dorado County.
Sheetz v. El Dorado County, to be heard by the court early next year, centers on whether the traffic impact fee for a home outside Placerville had any relation to what the actual impacts would be.
“All permit extractions, regardless if authorized by legislation or ad hoc decisions, should be subject to heightened scrutiny for courts that they do mitigate for public impacts and no more,” said Paul Beard, an attorney with the Los Angeles office of law firm FisherBroyles LLP, which is representing plaintiff George Sheetz in the case.