2045 Mobility Plan and Mobility Fee

The City of Oviedo contracted with NUE Urban Concepts for the development of a combined Mobility Plan and Mobility Fee. The Mobility Plan and Mobility Fee work in conjunction to replace Road Impact Fees, typically paid by developers of large projects.

Payment of impact fees or mobility fees is a primary way local government requires new development, along with redevelopment or expansion of existing land uses, to mitigate its impact on a local government's transportation system. While road impact fees and mobility fees are both intended to be means by which development can mitigate its transportation impact, the following are the major differences between the two fees:

Road Impact Fees

• Partially or fully fund road capacity improvements, including new roads, the widening of existing roads, and the addition or extension of turn lanes at intersections to move people driving vehicles (i.e., cars, trucks, SUVs, motorcycles). 
• Are based on increases in trip generation, vehicle trip length, and road capacity, along with the cost of road capacity improvements and the projected vehicle miles of travel from development. 
• May be based on either an adopted LOS standard (aka standards or consumption-based fee) or on future road improvements (aka plan or improvements-based fee).

Mobility Fees

• Pay for the cost associated with adding new multimodal capacity to move people walking, bicycling, scooting, riding transit, driving vehicles, or using shared mobility technology. 
• Partially or fully fund multimodal projects, including sidewalks, multi-use paths, greenways, bike lanes, multimodal lanes and ways, streetscape, landscape, micro-mobility (i.e., electric bikes, electric scooters) devices, programs, and services, micro-transit (i.e., golf carts, neighborhood electric vehicles, autonomous transit shuttles) circulators, services and vehicles, new roads, the widening of existing roads, traffic control devices, intersection improvements, and roundabouts.
• Are based on increases in person trips, person trip lengths, and person miles of capacity from multimodal projects, along with projected person miles of travel from development. 
• Assessment areas may vary based on geographic location (e.g., either side of an Interstate), type of development (e.g., mixed-use), or differences in person travel characteristics. 
• Must be based on future multimodal projects adopted as part of a mobility plan and incorporated or referenced in the local government's Comprehensive Plan.