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New Braunfels adopts road fee study; charged rates await separate ordinance

New Braunfels adopted a new roadway impact fee study, setting a framework for growth-related road costs; a separate ordinance will determine what developers are charged next.

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Illustration: A sketched road plan represents the roadway fee study; it does not depict the council meeting.Original editorial illustration; not a photograph and does not depict the reported event or an exact property.Comal.News Visual Desk · Original illustration · Source ↗ · Comal.News original illustration ↗

After a public hearing, the council adopted the 2026 roadway impact fee study update, including the land use assumptions, the roadway impact fee capital improvement plan and the maximum assessable fee.

The study sets a ceiling for potential roadway impact fees, while a separate council decision sets the rate charged to new development. For a developer budgeting a project—and a buyer asking whether those costs might affect a new home's price—the maximum in the study is not itself a bill. The city's draft study distinguishes its maximum assessable fee from the rate council chooses to collect.

What the study covers

The city's roadway impact fee page identifies a 2020 update as the earlier study. The new draft examines growth from 2026 through 2036 across six service areas and limits eligible projects to capacity improvements; maintenance and resurfacing are excluded. Those boundaries matter because the calculation addresses infrastructure tied to new growth, rather than every cost of caring for existing streets.

Map from the record

Map of New Braunfels Service Area 2 with labeled road projects color-coded by type, a legend, and an inset showing the six service areas.
Service Area 2 road improvement plan. Map from the draft study showing the Service Area 2 Capital Improvement Plan, dated June 2026. Its legend marks new, widening, access management and completed or funded projects, plus intersection improvements.Map: City of New Braunfels · View the original map (PDF) ↗

The Oct. 26 action adopted the study's land use assumptions, capital improvement plan and maximum assessable fee. The verified meeting outcome records a unanimous vote. It does not, by itself, identify a newly charged rate or a dollar amount payable for a particular home. A payment illustration needs the enacted collection schedule and the applicable service area and development category.

The next rate decision

The city's roadway impact fee page lists Nov. 9 for a first reading and Nov. 23 for a second reading of the fee ordinance. Those are the next public checkpoints for determining what the city proposes to charge. Readers can inspect the city's roadway impact fee page for the study and ordinance schedule; the adopted ordinance and its rate table will be the records needed to compare any new charge with the existing one.

Citizen comments

The verified outcome establishes that a public hearing preceded the study vote. The retained outcome entry does not recount individual testimony or council responses, so this account cannot characterize what speakers said. A fuller comment record would require the hearing minutes or recording.

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