West Palm Beach commission creates mobility-fee district, establishes fund account

The City Commission of West Palm Beach on May 27 approved an ordinance after a second public hearing to add a mobility-fee article to the city code, establish a mobility-fee benefit district and create a mobility-fee fund account to manage collected fees.

The ordinance adds Article 7 (sections 86-500 through 86-516) to Chapter 86 (Traffic and Parking), establishing the legal framework for a mobility fee, a benefit district in which the fee would apply and a dedicated fund account to receive fee revenues.

City officials said the change amends the City of West Palm Beach Code of Ordinances to set out the mobility-fee mechanism and associated accounting. The commission approved the ordinance after the required second public hearing.

The ordinance will add a new funding and administrative tool intended to collect fees from qualifying development within the designated benefit district. The commission did not include detailed fee schedules or implementation dates in the approval recorded on the meeting summary; those specifics were not specified in the meeting record provided.

No vote tallies or individual commissioner motions were supplied in the meeting summary. The approval followed the city's required second public hearing process for code amendments.