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Council directs staff to adopt updated impact fees; consultants recommended maximum allowable rates
Summary
After a public hearing, consultants presented a five‑year update to Prosper’s impact‑fee program and the town’s Capital Improvements Advisory Committee recommended collecting the maximum allowable fees (using a 50% credit). Council directed staff to bring an ordinance reflecting that ceiling back for adoption.
Prosper’s Town Council held a public hearing Aug. 12 on proposed updates to its impact‑fee program for water, wastewater and roadways and, after hearing consultant testimony and committee recommendations, directed staff to move forward with the maximum allowable rates under the draft study.
Friese & Nichols consultants presented the technical update required at least every five years. Edwin (Eddie) Haas of Friese Nichols summarized the program and said the update calculates the cost per service unit for new development and uses those unit costs to set a fee. “An impact fee is a one time charge to new development for infrastructure capacity that is consumed by development application,” Haas said during the presentation.
Andrea Meyer, the consultant who led the water and wastewater technical work, told the…
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