The Sammamish City Council unanimously adopted 2017 impact fees for the three school districts within the city at its Nov. 15 regular meeting.

The council moved to suspend regular council rules to adopt the impact fee ordinances for new homes in the Issaquah, Lake Washington and Snoqualmie Valley school districts after hearing a first reading, allowing the council to forego a second reading of the ordinances.

Impact fees pay for the cost of facilities needed to serve new developments, Sammamish Community Development Analyst David Goodman explained. The fees are collected at the new construction of single-family and multifamily homes.

In 2016, the city collected approximately $1.4 million from the Lake Washington School District and $528,086 from the Issaquah School District.

Goodman noted there were five increases and one decrease among the proposed 2017 impact fees. The proposed impact fees for 2017 would charge new single-family homes in the Snoqualmie Valley School District $10,051.78 per unit, an increase of $1,560.92, and $1,290.75 per multi-family unit, a decrease of $366.86.

New single-family homes in the Lake Washington School District would be charged $10,822 per unit, an increase of $1,107, and $956 per multi-family unit, an increase of $140. New single-family homes in the Issaquah School District would be charged $7,921 per unit, an increase of $3,285, and $2,386 per multi-family unit, an increase of $852.

The impact fees will go into effect as of Jan. 1, 2017.