Senoia's efforts

to draft an impact fee ordinance are not moving quickly enough for the

City Council.

During Monday

night's meeting, the council heard the draft of the ordinance may not

be ready until October.

"We need

to step this process up," said Councilman Bill Wood.

City administrator

Murray McAfee said city planner Bill Johnston had given the city a 160-day

timeline for the draft to be completed. Johnston is working on the draft,

along with city engineer Ben Turnipseed and consultant Bill Rosser.

"We started

talking about this in November. You need to call them every day,"

said Mayor Dianne Cleveland.

McAfee agreed

the process was taking too much time.

"It's

moving a lot slower than I thought it would," he said.

McAfee said

an initial recommendation by Johnston and the consultant was to move any

water and sewer issues out of the impact fee ordinance.

"They

favor using a capital recovery fund, which uses tap fees, and is easier

to adjust," McAfee said.

The city's

development moratorium is set to expire in April, and the council was

hopeful of having an impact fee in ordinance in place when development

started again.

The council

instructed McAffee to get the timeline changed and try and get the ordinance

to the council quicker.