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13 — Motion to add a Budget Note to Study a Package Delivery Fee (Vote Passed)

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Breadcrumb: Councilor Kanal > 13 — Motion to add a Budget Note to Study a Package Delivery Fee (Vote Passed)

June 11, 2025 The Community and Economic Development Service Area is instructed to study a long- term vacancy fee and report to Council by February 28, 2026 with concepts, structures, implementation, and projections for vacant commercial properties which have remained vacant for at least six months (as well as other timeline options longer than six months, e.g. nine months or twelve months). Kanal 12 (Ryan Divide) – Motion to add a Budget Note to Study Long-Term Vacancy Fees (Divided: Commercial only - Vote Passed) Motion to Amend Attachment D and add a budget note regarding Study Long-Term Vacancy Fees, to read as follows: The Community and Economic Development Service Area is instructed to study a long- term vacancy fee and report to Council by February 28, 2026 with concepts, structures, implementation, and projections for vacant commercial properties which have remained vacant for at least six months (as well as other timeline options longer than six months, e.g. nine months or twelve months). Kanal 13 – Motion to add a Budget Note to Study a Package Delivery Fee (Vote Passed) Motion to Amend Attachment D and add a budget note regarding a Package Delivery Fee, to read as follows: The Revenue Division is instructed to study a potential municipal package delivery fee option and report to Council by February 28, 2026 with concepts, structures, potential exemptions, implementation and projections for a fee which would apply to last-mile deliveries on a per-delivery (not per-order) basis and which would exempt prepared food deliveries. The study will also consider how to minimize impacts of a fee on vulnerable consumers. The City Attorney's Office and PBOT are is instructed to study preemptions in state law that limit the ability of local governments to raise their own supplemental transportation revenue and their applicability to such a fee, as well as the Office of Government Relations to evaluate potential City advocacy efforts to remove applicable preemptions, and report to Council alongside the presentation of the draft legislative agenda in the autumn of 2025. 32

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