Sec. 655.503. - Mobility fee requirement, certificate, application process and calculation.

(a) Mobility fee required. Unless a fair share assessment payment is made per Section 655.301 , Ordinance Code, or a development is deemed de minimis, per Section 655.108 , or exempt per Section 655.109 , or Section 655.510 , the Mobility fee must be paid prior to approval of final construction and/or engineering plans under Chapter 320 , Ordinance Code or building permits for single family residential construction. Additionally, any landowner or developer who otherwise would be required to construct a sidewalk within the right-of-way along its property frontage but for the off-site sidewalk having been constructed by a previous developer pursuant to Section 2.2.2(5) of the Land Development Procedures Manual (and for which Mobility fee credit was given to the previous developer pursuant to this Chapter), the current developer shall pay a reimbursement to the Mobility fund from which the credit was generated, in the dollar amount of the credit given to the previous developer. The fee shall be paid by the developer by separate check and the CMMSO shall deposit it into the Mobility Fee Special Revenue Fund or Funds for the applicable Mobility Zone or Zones, in addition to the required Mobility fee. (b) Mobility fee calculation application and fee. An applicant for a Mobility Fee Calculation Certificate shall file a completed application with the CMMSO on the form provided by that office. The applicant shall provide all the information requested on the application, to the extent applicable. The application shall be accepted by the CMMSO only if the application is completed in full and submitted with all supplementary information required. Upon the payment to the Tax Collector of the application fee, copies of the application shall be transmitted immediately to the Division. The fees noted above can be found electronically on the following City of Jacksonville webpage: www.coj.net/fees . (c) Department sufficiency review. If the Department determines that the information contained in the Mobility Fee Calculation Certificate application is insufficient to review the application, then the Department, within five days of its receipt of the application shall notify the applicant of such insufficiencies. The applicant shall then have ten days from the date of such notification to remedy the application's insufficiencies. This time period may be extended by the CMMSO based upon a showing of good cause. Any notification by the Department that the application is insufficient automatically tolls the applicable review period. Upon the Department's receipt of the necessary information to make the application sufficient, the review period begins again at the point at which it was tolled. (d) Issuance of Mobility Fee Calculation Certificate. The Mobility Fee Calculation Certificate shall be issued by the CMMSO within 14 days from the date the application is accepted and deemed sufficient by the Department, unless the application for a Mobility Fee Calculation Certificate was submitted with an application for a CCAS for the development, per Section 655.111 , or a CCAS application for the development has been pending with CMMSO for less than 31 days. If the application for a Mobility Fee Calculation Certificate was submitted with a CCAS application for the development or a CCAS application for the development has been pending with CMMSO for less than 31 days, then the Mobility Fee Calculation Certificate will be issued when the written decision concerning the CCAS for the development is issued. (e) Mobility fee calculation. For the purpose of calculating a Mobility fee, the following formula shall apply: Mobility Fee = A × B × C × D where A = Cost per VMT/Mobility Zone B = Average length of VMT per Development Area; C = Net new Daily Vehicle Trips; and D = Internal VMT factor to cover the number of trips that have both a start and stop within Jacksonville. An automated Mobility fee calculator is available for a Mobility fee estimate on the CMMSO website. This is only an estimate and does not take the place of a Mobility Fee Calculation Certificate. (1) Cost per VMT. The cost per VMT is determined by dividing the cost of the Mobility System Projects in the applicable Mobility Zone identified in the Capital Improvement Element of the Comprehensive Plan by the projected change in VMT between the base year and the future year as set forth in the most recent Mobility System evaluation. The cost of the VMT varies with the Mobility Zone and is rationally based upon the cost of identified projects for each Mode within each Mobility Zone. The cost of the VMT shall be administratively adjusted annually on October 1, based upon the published FDOT, Office of Policy Planning Highway Construction Cost Inflation Factor plus a 0.5 percent administrative fee. The annually administratively updated VMT costs are found in www.coj.net/fees . The data and analysis forming the basis of the costs may also be found in the Mobility Plan and Fee Update produced by Resource Systems Group, Inc., dated December 2020. The year 2023 fees are shown in the Table below. This cost, with the addition of the Inflation Factor and administrative fee per year, is used as "A" in the Mobility fee formula stated above (A × B × C × D). 2023 COST PER VEHICLE MILE TRAVELED (VMT) Mobility Zone Cost per VMT 1 $ 75.62 2 $ 58.63 3 $ 82.02 4 $ 79.07 5 $ 79.95 6 $ 83.37 7 $ 41.00 8 $ 44.39 9 $ 39.97 10 $ 33.09   (2) Average length of VMT is shown in the table below for each of the five Development Areas. This is "B" in the Mobility fee calculation above. AVERAGE LENGTH OF VEHICLE MILE TRAVELED PER DEVELOPMENT AREA Development Area 2045 Average Trip Length in Miles 1. Central Business District 5.70 2. Urban Priority Area 4.75 3. Urban 4.90 4. Suburban 5.21 5. Rural 7.71   (3) Net new Daily Vehicle Trips and Trip Reduction Adjustments. Together, the Development Daily Vehicle Trips adjusted by the Trip Reductions available make up the "net new" Development Daily Vehicle Trips, which is "C" in the Mobility fee formula above. (A) Development Daily Vehicle Trips. Unless there is a special trip generation study approved by the Planning and Development Department, the Institute of Transportation Engineers (ITE) most recent edition of "Trip Generation" shall be utilized to determine Development Daily Vehicle Trips. (B) Trip Reduction Adjustments. (i) The Development Daily Vehicle Trips generated shall be reduced using the Trip Reduction criteria found in Section 5 of the CMMS Handbook for internal capture, pass-by, diverted link, TOD, and transit stop proximity. (ii) Excluding the area of Downtown (Mobility Zone 10) as defined in Section 656.361.2 , Ordinance Code, Development Daily Vehicle Trips generated shall also be reduced by the number of Development Daily Vehicle Trips generated by the Existing Use on the property. These reductions are non-transferable and may only be used on the development site from which the Trip Reductions have been generated. (a) If an Existing Use structure is reoccupied, or not substantially repurposed, remodeled, or renovated, then 100 percent of the number of trips that would have been generated by the Existing Use shall be subtracted from the Development Daily Vehicle Trips calculated for a proposed development that includes that Existing Use parcel. (b) If a non-historic Existing Use structure is demolished, or if an Existing Use structure was demolished prior to the year 2021, then 125 percent of the trips that were associated with that Existing Use shall be subtracted from the Development Daily Vehicle Trips calculated for a proposed development that includes that Existing Use parcel. (c) If an Existing Use structure is substantially repurposed, remodeled, or renovated, then 150 percent of the trips that were associated with that Existing Use shall be subtracted from the Development Daily Vehicle Trips calculated for a proposed development that includes that Existing Use parcel. For the purposes of this Section, "substantially repurposed, remodeled, or renovated" means that the existing development is being expanded or renovated for a value equal to 50 percent or more of the assessed value of the combined lot improvements on that parcel or parcels, according to the Property Appraiser. (4) Internal VMT factor to cover the number of trips that have both a start and stop within Jacksonville . This is "D" in the Mobility fee formula above. In order to prevent double counting of Trips, these internal factors are applied based on the Mobility Zone. The internal VMT factor is a weighted factor based on the number of trips and resulting VMT that remains internal to the City versus the share that is associated with trips and VMT outside of the City (as modeled in NERPM). The internal VMT is shown in the Table below. INTERNAL VMT FACTORS, BY ZONE Mobility Zone Internal VMT Factors 1 0.61 2 0.54 3 0.56 4 0.58 5 0.57 6 0.61 7 0.58 8 0.54 9 0.55 10 0.56   (5) Developments with multiple uses. If there are multiple uses in a development, the MFCC should be obtained when a building permit is sought for each structure. Thus, there is flexibility to change uses within the development. Changes in use will be calculated at the time of issuance of each MFCC. If internal capture is sought to be utilized for Trip Reduction, that benefit will be realized only after the required mix of uses is attained. (f) Apportionment of Mobility fee . The following chart indicates the Mobility fee apportionment in the Special Revenue Funds between Motorized and Non-Motorized Modes for each Mobility Zone. Upon payment by a landowner/developer, the City will apportion a Mobility fee payment consistent with the below chart. These percentages are also found in Section 111.546 , Ordinance Code (Mobility Fee Zone Special Revenue Fund). However, with regard to payment into a Mobility Zone or Zones Special Revenue Fund for a sidewalk that has been provided by previous developers pursuant to Section 655.503 (a), said payment by the current developer shall be by separate check or instrument and the entirety shall be deposited into the Non-motorized account for that Zone or Zones. Said payment is in addition to any other Non-motorized fee. Mobility Zone Motorized Percentage Non-Motorized Percentage 1 91% 9% 2 93% 7% 3 83% 17% 4 95% 5% 5 88% 12% 6 91% 9% 7 69% 31% 8 84% 16% 9 46% 54% 10 12% 88%   (Ord. 2011-536-E, § 1; Ord. 2017-665-E , § 28; Ord. 2020-757-E , § 1; Ord. 2022-909-E , § 7)