Specific fees are recommended for seven areas: public schools; community parks and boat landings; libraries; community services; law enforcement; fire stations and apparatus; and emergency services.

The county Department of Planning and Zoning said a meeting on the draft report will be held Monday, June 18, at 7 p.m. in the county commissioners' meeting room of the Liberty Building. This is the second "focus group" meeting held by the planning staff and consultants on the impact fee project. The first meeting was May 17.

The 47-page Tischler report lists a schedule of "justifiable impact fees" for residential and non-residential development and formulas for determining the fees. Residential developers would pay seven fees; non-residential developers would pay four fees.

For a 2,000 square-foot single-family home, the total fee would be $8,483, based on a $880 fee for fire stations and apparatus. For a 1,200 square foot apartment, the total fee would be $5,443, based on a $528 fee for fire stations and apparatus.

(The fee for fire stations and apparatus would be set at a uniform rate of 44 cents per square foot for residential development. The fees for the other six types of public facilities would be set at a per housing unit cost for two categories of residential development.)

The six per home fees for single-family homes and mobile homes are: $4,730 for public schools; $821 for community parks and boat landings; $299 for libraries; $1,251 for community services; $174 for law enforcement; and $328 for emergency services.

The six per home fees for other types of homes are: $2,569 for public schools; $670 for community parks and boat landings; $244 for libraries; $1,022 for community services; $142 for law enforcement; and $268 for emergency services.

Developers of office, commercial, industrial and institutional projects would have to pay four separate fees (based on per square foot of floor area) for community services, law enforcement, fire stations and apparatus, and emergency services. Total fees for all four types of public facilities would range from 93 cents per square foot for an institutional development to $3.66 per square foot for a commercial project or shopping center that is 50,000 square feet or less.

Queen Anne's County currently charges two impact fees - for public schools and emergency services. The school impact fee is charged on a per home cost: $2,280 for a single-family detached home; $1,513 for a mobile home; $1,247 for a duplex; $1,170 for a townhouse; and $765 for a multi-family apartment unit. The emergency services fee is $55 per home and 15 cents per square foot of floor area for non-residential development; it is only charged for projects on Kent Island and the Queenstown and Grasonville areas.

"Impact fees are not a general revenue-raising mechanism," said the report's executive summary. "The purpose of imposing impact fees is to fund the construction of capital improvements necessary to accommodate new development."