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When Is A Fee Not A Fee?

In 2013, the developer of a mixed-use project in downtown Palo Alto paid almost a million dollars in in-lieu parking fees – supposedly to help pay for construction of a new city parking garage downtown. A decade later, the mixed-use building has been built, the parking garage has not – and now the developer is going to get his million dollars back.

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