Murrieta City Council gives current developers more time to pay increased DIF fees
The Murrieta City Council, after many years, proposed an increase in the development impact fees for development infrastructure but provided more time for current developers to adjust to the increase in a grandfather clause.The council, in its Tuesday, April 16, meeting, heard a number of objections from local developers and engineers who have to have their plan checked within 60 days, by Sunday, June 30, before paying the required DIF fees before getting their building permits. They then have a year before all the fees are due.The city needed to increase the DIF to make up for predicted increases in future infrastructure and service cost to offset projected city population and building increases. In recent years, due to the increasing costs, the current DIF money has not paid all