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J. HOSTER MOBILITY 3209 W. Woodlawn Ave. Tampa, Florida 33607 Phone/Fax (813) 637-8252 4912 Sunset Blvd. Port Richey, Florida 34668 Phone/Fax (727) 848-7660 Bill Burges Building Inspector City of Zephyrhills 5335 8th Street Zephyrhills, FL 33542 RE: Transportation Impact Fees for the First Baptist Church Ancillary Building Dear Bill: Pursuant to our telephone conversation regarding the transportation impact of the church's ancillary building, the following information is provided. The ancillary building is only used for Sunday School classes, with the first session having commenced the last Sunday in February. Traffic counts at the entrances to the parking lot (which has not been enlarged) were not available prior to the opening of the new building. Therefore, conducting traffic counts after the building was in use would not provide meaningful evidence as to the possible additional traffic generation associated with the new building. Sunday School attendance as a surrogate for traffic counts is a reasonable assumption since other factors, such as auto occupancy and the proportion of Sunday School attendees that stay for the church service, would remain constant and not be affected by the construction of the new building. The church keeps detailed records of Sunday School attendance; attached is a copy of that data from January 2000 through the third Sunday in March 2003. Also, attach is a graph showing average monthly attendance for the time period. The first three Sundays in March provides the first period of normal operations after the grand opening Sunday. While average weekly attendance was higher for 2003 than 2002 it is below the average for the four year period. There appears to be no significant change in attendance since the new building opened, which substantiates the assumption that traffic entering and exiting the area did not increase as a result of the new building. Since the purpose of impact fees is to help mitigate the impact of new development and that there must be an nexus between the impacts created by the development and the fees that are charged, imposing a transportation impact fee for a building that does not generate increased traffic does not appear to be reasonable.