Salem updates construction fees to add parks, help transportation

A man and woman look out at Minto-Island Brown Park in early winter. (Caleb Wolf/Special to Salem Reporter)

Salem officials are bumping up some costs of building new homes in the city to pay for more parks and traffic improvements.

Salem City Council on Monday approved changes to its system development charges, which builders pay the city during construction and the city then uses for roads, parks, sewers and other infrastructure. The fees do not…