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Argyle hires consultants to update roadway and wastewater impact fees and undertake thoroughfare planning
Summary
Council authorized contracts to update the town’s roadway impact-fee schedule and wastewater impact-fee schedule and to refresh the thoroughfare plan; staff framed the work as time‑sensitive because state rules require periodic updates and current fee studies are dated (2020). The town will use a firm selected through a piggybacked procurement and
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Impact‑fee studies set the formula the town uses to collect developer contributions for future capital projects; outdated studies risk legal challenges or revenue loss.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…
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