Argyle Town Council authorized consultant contracts to update two categories of impact fees — roadway and wastewater — and to refresh the town’s thoroughfare plan. Staff emphasized the updates are legally time‑sensitive: impact‑fee schedules and associated land‑use assumptions must be current and defensible under state law.

Why it matters: Impact‑fee studies set the formula the town uses to collect developer contributions for future capital projects; outdated studies risk legal challenges or revenue loss. Staff said the town’s existing studies date to 2020 and that updates should reflect current construction costs, growth projections and the town’s planned traffic‑calming and thoroughfare objectives.

What staff proposed

- A roadway impact‑fee / thoroughfare plan update with a consultant experienced in traffic modeling, traffic‑calming design and fee calculations. Staff proposed to engage Kimley‑Horn (a firm used by neighboring jurisdictions) to accelerate the study and meet statutory timing requirements. The work includes assessment of proposed traffic‑calming improvements, limited‑access roundabouts and coordination with area small‑area plans.
- A wastewater impact‑fee update to align water‑quality and treatment/collection assumptions and to incorporate updated developer contribution calculations.

Budget and procurement notes

Staff said funds for both contracts are available from previously collected development fees (impact fee funds). Staff also explained the firm selection used a procurement (piggyback) that matched Denton County’s competitively awarded contract; staff said future similar procurements will be handled through Argyle’s RFQ/RFP process.

Council action and votes

Council approved the roadway/thoroughfare engagement and the wastewater impact‑fee engagement. During discussion some councilmembers requested additional time and transparency on RFQ procurement in future engagements; staff agreed to follow the Town’s procurement process for upcoming contracts (town engineer RFQ upcoming). The items were approved by council and staff will return with a project schedule and public engagement plan.

Next steps

Consultants will gather updated land‑use assumptions, run travel demand models, propose thoroughfare and traffic‑calming recommendations and prepare draft and final impact‑fee ordinances for council consideration. Staff will coordinate the work with the Town Center and I‑35 small‑area planning efforts to ensure consistency.

Ending

The contracts aim to keep impact fees defensible, align the Town’s roadway strategy with small‑area plans and to identify traffic‑calming investments that can be budgeted and, if appropriate, funded through developer contributions.