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Forney planning commission begins five-year impact-fee update; staff recommends city-limits study area
Summary
City consultants outlined a 6–7 month process to update water and sewer impact fees, recommending the commission focus on city limits rather than the extraterritorial jurisdiction (ETJ) because of Certificate of Convenience and Necessity complications.
The Forney Planning and Zoning Commission convened a kickoff discussion on updating the city’s water and sewer impact fees after City Council appointed the commission to act as the capital improvements advisory committee. Richard Dormeyer, an engineer with Freeman Milliken, told the commission the update is a roughly six- to seven-month process that will analyze projected 10-year growth and the costs to serve that growth.
Dormeyer said state law (Texas Local Government Code, Chapter 395) allows cities to recover up to 50% of the infrastructure costs attributable to new development through impact fees collected at building permit issuance. “Everybody pretty much goes with the 50%,” Dormeyer said, adding there is a path to document higher recovery percentages but that it is…
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