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Council hears impact-fee restudy; CIAC recommends adopting 50% of calculated maximums
Summary
City staff and a consultant briefed council on a restudy of roadway impact fees, showing higher recoverable project costs driven by inflation and annexations; the Capital Improvement Advisory Committee recommended adopting 50% of the calculated maximum fees and staff scheduled public hearings in July and August.
City Manager Jared Atkinson convened a work session presentation on the city’s impact-fee restudy on behalf of staff and the consultant team, which laid out how the city calculated new maximum fees for roadway impacts and the Capital Improvement Advisory Committee’s recommendation to adopt 50% of those maximums.
"So what are they? They are 1 time fees for new development," City Engineer John Turpin told the council, summarizing the statutory basis for impact fees and the four categories Texas municipalities may collect: water, wastewater, roadway and drainage. Turpin said Lubbock’s study followed the 10-year planning window set out in Chapter 395 of the Texas Local Government Code.
The restudy, presented in greater detail by consultant Brandon Forsyth, kept the city’s service-area boundaries, updated land-use assumptions using Plan Lubbock 2040 parcel data and recent annexations, and reduced the residential growth rate used for projections from 2.5% in the prior study to 2.2% based on updated data and staff review. Forsyth said the team converted anticipated dwelling units and…
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