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Leander staff urges narrower roadway-adequacy exemptions, higher impact-fee collection
Summary
City staff recommended tightening exemptions to roadway adequacy payments, automating impact-fee calculations, and considering higher collection rates after a review found current collections fall far short of identified transportation needs.
City engineer Emily Truman presented the city's current approach to funding transportation improvements and proposed narrowing when developments can avoid roadway construction through roadway adequacy payments (RAP).
Truman said Leander's 2021 transportation master plan identifies about $320,000,000 in transportation needs over the next 10 years and that the city's impact-fee study (completed in 2022) produced maximum assessed fees by service area. Council established a collection rate of 50% of the maximum assessed fee for residential development and 10% for nonresidential developers; staff began collecting those reduced rates in January 2024. Truman told council those collection levels, combined with current RAP practice, mean the city is not collecting enough to fund intersection or signal work that TIAs…
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