New Braunfels’ Roadway Impact Fee Advisory Committee will review collection-rate options Oct. 1 as it prepares a recommendation to City Council.
The collection-rate recommendation will shape how much new development pays toward roadway capacity projects across all New Braunfels council districts.
The Thursday packet says Kimley-Horn & Associates will bring fee-rate options and additional data requested by the committee. The complete posted package does not state the numerical options, so residents cannot yet compare possible charges from the documents alone.
From the ceiling to the charge
At its Sept. 15 meeting, the committee reviewed maximum assessable fees but asked for benchmark-city collection rates and examples for single-family, multifamily and nonresidential development before recommending what the city should actually collect.
The draft minutes distinguish the maximum assessable fee from the lower amount the committee may recommend. Members also requested information on Neighborhood Empowerment Zones, a developed-versus-undeveloped map from the prior study and comparisons with peer cities.
City records describe roadway impact fees as charges on new development that can fund or recoup the cost of road facilities and expansions attributable to that development. The advisory committee recommends a collected rate and effective date; City Council makes the policy decision.
The decision path
The city’s posted timeline calls for an Oct. 13 committee hearing, a proposed Oct. 26 City Council hearing on the study and a tentative Nov. 9 hearing on the collected fees and effective date.
The Oct. 1 committee meeting begins at 3 p.m. in the Tejas Room at City Hall, 550 Landa Street. The meeting agenda provides a citizens’ communications period for subjects not listed for discussion; the fee-rate discussion is listed as item 5A.
Readers can inspect the city’s agenda packet for the meeting materials and revisit Comal.News’ earlier maximum-fee study for the distinction between the calculated ceiling and the amount City Council would ultimately choose to collect. The next decisive records will be the Oct. 1 presentation, the committee’s recommendation and the later hearing notices and outcomes.