The Peachtree

City Council has agreed to collect an impact fee on all new construction

projects to help fund a new jail facility for Fayette County.

At its meeting

Thursday night, council passed the impact fee proposal unanimously. City

Attorney Rick Lindsey said the latest proposal from the county addressed

all his concerns on the city's behalf.

"Everything

I wanted in there was put in," Lindsey said.

The county's

original impact fee proposal drew much ire from Mayor Bob Lenox, who felt

it unfairly targeted the city's industries to share an unfair portion

of the burden.

The funds will

be used to defray the cost of the jail in the hopes of paying off the

debt sooner, county officials have said.

The jail impact

fee for each household will be $869.78 while the fees for retail trade

structures will depend on their size: $4,744.23 for those under 10,000

square feet, $9,488.46 for those between 10,000 and 50,000 square feet,

and $14,232.69 for those over 50,000 square feet.