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Wylie council asks staff to return with stormwater-fee plan after study; majority favor $5 flat rate and limited exemptions
Summary
Councilors directed city staff to continue work on a proposed stormwater utility after a presentation of a fee evaluation study. Council generally favored a flat residential fee, exempting houses of worship, the city and the county, while keeping school districts subject to the charge.
City staff presented a stormwater utility fee evaluation at the May 13 Wylie City Council meeting and received direction from council to refine a proposed program that would raise revenue for drainage maintenance and projects.
Tommy Weir, presenting the study produced with consultant Freese and Nichols, told the council the city’s storm system includes pipe, open ditches and about 65 miles of open-channel drainage. Staff counted just under 17,000 residential parcels and roughly 639 nonresidential parcels and estimated 62 million square feet of residential impervious area and 36 million square feet for nonresidential properties.
Weir summarized two basic rate approaches: a flat residential rate (one ERU per home) or a tiered residential model based on…
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