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Approving a work authorization with Kimley-Horn in the amount of $111,000 for professional engineering services for the Roadway Impact Fee Study update, and authorizing the City Manager to execute the same.
Summary
The proposed work authorization is for the five-year update to the Roadway Impact Fee study, as required by 395 of Texas Local Government Code. The purpose of the study update is to identify the maximum fee per service unit of new development necessary to fund a percentage of proposed roadway capital improvements within city limits. While the City is allowed to assess impact fees for water/wastewater in the extraterritorial jurisdiction (ETJ), we are not authorized to with roadway impact fees.
Kimley-Horn is the consultant who is contracted to execute the Mobility Master Plan update that is currently underway and is the consultant who advises city staff related to the implementation of the Roadway Impact Fee program.
Generally speaking, impact fees are a mechanism for funding public infrastructure necessitated by new development. Impact fees are meant to recover the incremental cost of the impact of each new unit of development creating new infrastructure needs, or expansions of roadway facilities to maintain a Level of Service (LOS) for increased capacity on the overall transportation system. The November 2019 Transportation Master Plan recommended the evaluation of an Impact Fee to help fund infrastructure needed due to growth. As a result, the original study was completed and adopted in 2020 creating the City's first Roadway Impact Fees. While that study has been modified several times over the last five years, the basis for the maximum impact fee that could be assessed has not been studied since the original adoption. In addition to the five-year study update being a requirement by Chapter 395 of Texas Local Government Code, it is important to note that the cost assumptions for the capital improvement projects, which formed the basis ...
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