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Planning commission reviews city fiscal-impact model and GIS housing memo; rezoning in northwest Denton approved
Summary
Commissioners heard a detailed walk-through of the city's 40-year fiscal-impact model and a GIS-based undeveloped-land study estimating potential housing capacity; they also approved a rezoning (Z25-025A) for ~5.4 acres in northwest Denton and granted two plat extensions.
The Denton Planning and Zoning Commission on Feb. 25 spent considerable time on two staff briefings designed to give commissioners more context for land-use decisions: a detailed review of the city's fiscal-impact tool and a GIS-based undeveloped-land analysis that tabulates vacant acreage by zoning district.
Charlie Rosenthal, interim director of development services, described the fiscal-impact tool as one of 13 approval criteria adopted with the city's 2019 development code. The model runs at the parcel level to estimate general-fund revenues and costs over a 40-year horizon. Rosenthal said the tool uses parcel GIS, historical effective rates and assumptions about development to project future property values and fees. The model includes an annual growth/inflation factor of 2.4% and can be overridden in specific cases when staff and…
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