College Station council adopts 2025 strategic plan updates; authorizes mayor to send letters urging preservation of home-rule impact-fee authority

The College Station City Council on April 10 approved updates to its 2025 strategic plan and directed staff to pursue a legislative engagement approach aimed at protecting local home-rule authority, including the city's ability to impose or waive development impact fees.

The council unanimously adopted a revised strategic-plan draft staff circulated after a February planning session. Chief of Staff Ross Brady told council that the packet included a redline version of the draft and that the edits reflected council'members' priorities. Council agreed to replace one line that read "pursue strategies to maintain housing affordability" with stronger language to "pursue strategies to achieve housing affordability." Councilmembers also discussed retaining a line calling for an "expanded and diversified consumer-oriented economy" after several members…