A Peachtree City developer is challenging the determination of how much it owes per lot in impact fees to the city.

The City Council will hear the appeal from Ravin Homes, developer of the Cedarcroft subdivision off MacDuff Parkway on the city’s west side. The meeting will be held at 6 p.m. tonight in the Floy Farr Room at the Peachtree City Library.

In a letter to the city, Michael Rossetti of Ravin Homes said the impact fees requested by the city are “inequitable.” Ravin Homes contends its share of impact fees must be credited for $159,000 it spent to build the second phase of MacDuff Parkway.

City Attorney Ted Meeker, in a letter to Ravin’s legal counsel, noted that the city could not credit Ravin’s impact fees for the MacDuff Parkway construction because the road was required separately under a development agreement Ravin entered with the city to end a pending lawsuit over the 63-acre Cedarcroft parcel.

The city has indicated that Ravin Homes owes the city $277,107 in impact fees because Ravin has already paid $32,600 of the total amount due of $309,700. Under a development agreement between Ravin and the city, Ravin was allowed to defer payment of impact fees until either a final plat was approved for the third phase of Cedarcroft or four years after the approval of the final plat for the second phase of the subdivision.

The city is assessing $1,314 per lot for the first two phases of Cedarcroft but the amount increased to $1,637 per lot for the third phase because the third phase wasn’t recorded before a Jan. 1, 2004, deadline in the amended development agreement between Ravin Homes and the city, City Planner David Rast noted in a letter to Ravin Homes. The $1,637 figure is the current impact fee assessed on each residential lot in the city’s Line Creek service area.

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