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Editor's note—Ord. No. CSO#1479-08-2020, adopted September 8, 2020, repealed former art. III, which pertained to similar subject matter and derived from Ord. No. CSO#600-03-2017, adopted March 6, 2017.
Editor's note—Exhibits A through D are on file in the engineering department and the city secretary's office.
(Ord. No. CSO#1479-08-2020, § 1, 9-8-2020; Ord. No. 5478-06-2024, 6/3/2024)
This article shall be known and cited as the "Burleson roadway impact fee Regulations."
(Ord. No. CSO#1479-08-2020, § 1, 9-8-2020; Ord. No. 5478-06-2024, 6/3/2024)
The findings set forth above are incorporated into the body of this article as if fully set forth herein and are hereby found to be true and correct factual and legislative determinations of the city.
(Ord. No. CSO#1479-08-2020, § 1, 9-8-2020; Ord. No. 5478-06-2024, 6/3/2024)
This article is intended to assure the provision of adequate roadway facilities to serve new development in the city by requiring each development to pay a share of the costs of such capital improvements or roadway facility expansions necessitated by and attributable to such new development.
(Ord. No. CSO#1479-08-2020, § 1, 9-8-2020; Ord. No. 5478-06-2024, 6/3/2024)
This article is adopted pursuant to Texas Local Government Code (TLGC) Chapter 395 and the city charter. Chapter 395 supplements this article to the extent that its provisions may be applicable hereto and, to such extent, its provisions are incorporated herein by reference. The provisions of this article shall not be construed to limit the power of the city to utilize other methods authorized under state law or pursuant to other city powers to accomplish the purposes set forth herein, either in substitution or in conjunction with this article. Guidelines may be developed by ordinance, resolution, or otherwise to implement and administer this article.
(Ord. No. CSO#1479-08-2020, § 1, 9-8-2020; Ord. No. 5478-06-2024, 6/3/2024)
The provisions of this article apply to all new development within the corporate boundaries of the city. The provisions of this article apply uniformly within each roadway service area.
(Ord. No. CSO#1479-08-2020, § 1, 9-8-2020; Ord. No. 5478-06-2024, 6/3/2024)
The roadway impact fee capital improvements plan and land use assumptions identifying capital improvements or facility Expansions pursuant to which roadway impact fees may be assessed, as considered and adopted by the city council Resolution No. CSO#5346-12-2023 at the December 11, 2023 public hearing and with the roadway impact fee study as referenced in exhibit A Ordinance 5478-6-2024 incorporated herein by reference for all purposes, including any future amendments thereto.
(Ord. No. CSO#1479-08-2020, § 1, 9-8-2020; Ord. No. 5478-06-2024, 6/3/2024)
In this article:
ASSESSMENT
The determination of the amount of the maximum assessable roadway impact fee per service unit which can be imposed on new development pursuant to this article.
CALENDAR YEAR
From January 1st to December 31st in any year.
CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT
A roadway facility with a life expectancy of three or more years, to be owned and operated by or on behalf of the city.
CHANGE OF USE
A change in use or occupancy of any existing structure, that would otherwise have the effect of increasing the number of service units beyond those attributable to the immediately preceding use, which may include, but is not limited to, the reconstruction, redevelopment, conversion, or structural alteration, but does not include the enlargement or expansion of any structure.
CITY
The City of Burleson, Texas.
CREDIT
A reduction in the amount of a roadway impact fee(s), payments, or charges for approved construction or provision of the same type of capital improvement for which a fee has been assessed for a new development. This is done by either by a proven decrease in the number of service units attributable to such development or a decrease in the amount of roadway impact fees otherwise due, that results from contributions of land, improvements or funds to construct system improvements in accordance with the city's subdivision and development regulations, policies or requirements, as determined by the city.
FINAL PLAT APPROVAL
Authorization by the approval authority of the city that the final map of a proposed subdivision meets all city standards and conditions in accordance with the city's subdivision regulations and the mayor executes the applicant's plat and that the plat may be recorded in the office of the county clerk of Johnson or Tarrant County. The term applies both to original plats and replats.
IMPACT FEE, OR ROADWAY IMPACT FEE
A fee, charge, or assessment for roadway facilities imposed on new development by the city pursuant to this article in order to generate revenue to fund or recoup all or part of the costs of capital improvements or facility expansion necessitated by and attributable to such new development. The term includes amortized charges, lump-sum charges, capital recovery fees, contributions in aid of construction and any other fee that functions as described by this article or the statute. The term is inclusive of both the maximum assessable roadway impact fee and the roadway impact fee collection rate as herein described.
LAND USE ASSUMPTIONS
The description of service areas and the projections of population and employment growth and associated changes in land uses, densities and intensities adopted by the city, as may be amended from time-to-time, upon which the roadway impact fee capital improvements plan is based.
LAND USE EQUIVALENCY TABLE
A table converting the demands for capital improvements generated by various land uses to numbers of service units, as may be amended from time-to-time. The land use equivalency table may be incorporated in a schedule of impact fee rates, attached as exhibit C Ordinance 5478-6-2024 and incorporated by reference herein.
MAXIMUM ASSESSABLE ROADWAY IMPACT FEE
The impact fee that is established for each service area computed by calculating the total projected costs of capital improvements necessitated by and attributable to new development associated with the roadway CIP, and then dividing that amount by the total number of service units anticipated within the service area based upon the land use assumptions. The maximum assessable roadway impact fee shall be established and reflected in exhibit B, schedule 1, attached to Ordinance 5478-6-2024 and incorporated herein. The city may adopt a roadway impact fee collection rate that is less than this amount, but in no instance shall the collected roadway impact fee exceed the maximum Assessed roadway impact fee.
NEW DEVELOPMENT
A project involving the construction, reconstruction, redevelopment, conversion, structural alteration, relocation or enlargement of any structure, or any use or extension of land, which has the effect of increasing the requirements for capital improvements or facility expansions, measured by the number of service units to be generated by such activity, and which requires either the approval and filing with the county in which the property is located of a plat pursuant to the city's subdivision regulations or the issuance of a building permit, and which has not been exempted from these regulations by provisions herein.
RECOUPMENT
The imposition of an impact fee to reimburse the city for capital improvements which the city has previously oversized to serve new development.
ROADWAY FACILITY EXPANSION
The expansion of the capacity of an existing roadway in the city, but does not include the repair, maintenance, modernization, or expansion of an existing roadway to better serve existing development.
ROADWAY FACILITY
An improvement or appurtenance to a roadway which includes, but is not limited to, rights-of-way, whether conveyed by plat, deed or easement; intersection improvements; traffic signals; turn lanes; drainage facilities associated with the roadway facility; street lighting or curbs, and water and wastewater improvements affected by the roadway facility. Roadway facility also includes any improvement or appurtenance to an intersection with a roadway officially enumerated in the federal or State highway system, and to any improvements or appurtenances to such federal or State highway, to the extent that the city has incurred capital costs for such facilities, including without limitation local matching funds and costs related to utility line relocation and the establishment of curbs, gutters, sidewalks, drainage appurtenances and rights-of-way. Roadway facility excludes those improvements or appurtenances to any roadway which is a site-related facility.
ROADWAY IMPACT FEE CAPITAL IMPROVEMENTS PLAN, OR CAPITAL IMPROVEMENTS PLAN (CIP)
The adopted plan included in exhibit A to Ordinance 5478-6-2024, as may be amended from time-to-time, which identifies the roadway facilities or roadway facility expansions and their costs for each roadway service area, which are necessitated by and which are attributable to new development, for a period not to exceed 10 years, which are to be financed in whole or in part through the imposition of roadway impact fees pursuant to this article.
ROADWAY IMPACT FEE COLLECTION RATE
The current amount of roadway impact fee adopted by city council to be paid by the property owner, as may from time-to-time be amended. The adopted roadway impact fee collection rate shall be established and reflected in exhibit B, schedule 2, attached to Ordinance 5478-6-2024 and incorporated herein.
ROADWAY
Any primary and secondary arterial or major collector designated in the city's adopted mobility plan, as may be amended from time-to-time. Roadway also includes any thoroughfare designated as a numbered highway on the official federal or State highway system; to the extent that the city incurs capital improvement costs for such facility.
SERVICE AREA
A roadway service area within the city's corporate boundary, within which impact fees for roadway capital improvements or roadway facility expansions may be collected for new development occurring within such area and within which fees so collected will be expended for those types of improvements or expansions identified in the roadway impact fee capital improvements plan applicable to the service area.
SERVICE UNIT
A vehicle mile. A vehicle-mile shall be defined as one (1) vehicle traveling a distance of one (1) mile during the afternoon peak hour as calculated herein.
SITE-RELATED FACILITY
An improvement or facility which is for the primary use or benefit of one or more new developments and/or which is for the primary purpose of safe and adequate provision of roadway facilities to serve the new development, including access to the development, which is not included in the roadway capital improvements plan, and for which the developer(s) or property owner(s) is solely responsible under subdivision or other applicable development regulations. Site-related facility may include a roadway improvement which is located offsite, within or on the perimeter of the development site.
SYSTEM FACILITY
A roadway improvement or facility expansion which is designated in the roadway impact fee capital improvements plan and which is not a site-related facility. System facility may include a roadway improvement which is located offsite, within or on the perimeter of the development site.
(Ord. No. CSO#1479-08-2020, § 1, 9-8-2020; Ord. No. 5478-06-2024, 6/3/2024)
The city hereby establishes four roadway service areas, constituting land within the city's corporate boundaries, as depicted in exhibit A to Ordinance 5478-6-2024, referenced hereto and incorporated by reference herein. The boundaries of the roadway service areas may be amended from time-to-time, or new roadway service areas may be delineated, pursuant to the procedures of this article.
(Ord. No. CSO#1479-08-2020, § 1, 9-8-2020; Ord. No. 5478-06-2024, 6/3/2024)
The city hereby adopts the maximum assessable roadway impact fee attached and incorporated as exhibit B, schedule 1, and the roadway impact fee collection rate attached and incorporated as exhibit B, schedule 2 to Ordinance 5478-6-2024. Each non-exempt new development shall be assessed the maximum assessable roadway impact fee and shall pay the roadway impact fee collection rate, minus any applicable credits, as described herein. Except as herein otherwise provided, the assessment and collection of a roadway impact fee shall be additional and supplemental to, and not in substitution of, any other tax, fee, charge or assessment which is lawfully imposed on and due against the property.
(Ord. No. CSO#1479-08-2020, § 1, 9-8-2020; Ord. No. 5478-06-2024, 6/3/2024)
No final plat for new development shall be released for filing with Tarrant or Johnson County without assessment of an impact fee pursuant to this article; or, if no plat is required, then no building permit shall be issued until such assessment is made and the roadway impact fee collection rate is paid in accordance with the assessment and collection procedures indicated herein.
(Ord. No. CSO#1479-08-2020, § 1, 9-8-2020; Ord. No. 5478-06-2024, 6/3/2024)
Assessment of the impact fee for any new development shall be made as follows:
(1) 
Assessment of the roadway impact fee per service unit shall be the amount of the maximum assessable roadway impact fee per service unit as set forth in exhibit B, schedule 1 to Ordinance 5478-6-2024.
(2) 
For land which is not required to be platted at the time of application for a building permit pursuant to the city's subdivision regulations prior to development, assessment of roadway impact fees shall occur at the time application is made for the building permit, and shall be the amount of the maximum assessable roadway impact fee per service unit as set forth in exhibit B, schedule 1 then in effect.
(3) 
For new development which is submitted for approval pursuant to the city's subdivision regulations or which is proposed for replatting on or after the effective date of this article, assessment of impact fees shall be at the time of final plat or replat approval, and shall be the amount of the maximum assessable roadway impact fee per service unit as set forth in exhibit B, schedule 1 then in effect.
(4) 
Following assessment of the impact fee pursuant to this section, the amount of the impact fee assessment per service unit for that development cannot be increased, unless the owner proposes to change the approved development by the submission of a new application for final plat approval or other development application that results in approval of additional service units, in which case a new assessment shall occur at the exhibit B, schedule 1 rate then in effect for such additional service unit.
(5) 
The city manager or his or her designee shall compute the roadway impact fees for new development by first determining whether the new development is eligible for credits calculated in accordance with this article, which would further reduce impact fees otherwise due in whole or in part. The total amount of impact fees for the new development shall be attached to the development application as a condition of approval.
(6) 
Approval of an amending plat pursuant to Tex. Loc. Gov't Code, section 212.016 and the city's subdivision regulations is not subject to reassessment for an impact fee.
(Ord. No. CSO#1479-08-2020, § 1, 9-8-2020; Ord. No. 5478-06-2024, 6/3/2024)
The following are exempt from the applicability of this article:
(1) 
Pursuant to Tex. Loc. Gov't Code section 395.022, as amended, a public school district is not required to pay roadway impact fees imposed under this article unless the board of trustees of the district consents to the payment of the fees by entering a contract with the city imposing the fees.
(2) 
A change in use, as defined in section 44-157, is exempt from the payment of impact fees.
(Ord. No. CSO#1479-08-2020, § 1, 9-8-2020; Ord. No. 5478-06-2024, 6/3/2024)
Roadway impact fees shall be collected in the following manner; however, the city has the ability to require construction greater than the roadway impact fee collection rate for amounts up to the maximum assessable roadway impact fee:
(1) 
The roadway impact fee collection rate shall be paid at the time the city issues a building permit for a new development. For new development which does not require a building permit or filing of a plat, the roadway impact fee collection rate shall be paid prior to the issuance of a certificate of occupancy shall be based on the current plat date.
(2) 
For properties requiring a plat, the roadway impact fee collection rate to be paid and collected per service unit for new development shall be the amount listed in exhibit B, schedule 2 to Ordinance 5478-6-2024 in effect at the time of final plat approval.
(3) 
For properties that do not require the filing of a plat, the roadway impact fee collection rate shall be paid and collected per service unit for new development in the amount listed in exhibit B, schedule 2 in effect at the time that the building permit application is filed and shall be based on the current plat date.
(4) 
If the building permit for which an impact fee has been paid has expired, and a new application is thereafter filed, the roadway impact fee collection rate shall be computed using exhibit B, schedule 2 in effect at the time of the new application, with credits for previous payment of impact fees being applied against the new impact fees due.
(5) 
Whenever the property owner proposes to increase the number of service units for a development, the additional impact fees collected for such new service units shall be determined by using exhibit B, schedule 2 in effect at the time of the request, and such additional fee shall be collected at the times prescribed by this section.
(6) 
Where an application for a building permit is for a "shell" or speculative building on a parcel zoned "GR," general retail or "C," commercial, the amount of the roadway impact fee will be calculated assuming the entire building will be used as a "strip retail plaza" as shown on exhibit C, land use equivalency table to Ordinance 5478-6-2024. Where a subsequent application for a building permit is made for the finish-out of the shell building, or portion thereof, for the ultimate use, an additional roadway impact fee shall be charged and paid if the ultimate use is different from a "strip retail plaza."
(7) 
The city may vary the rates of collection or amount of roadway impact fees per service unit among or within service areas in order to reasonably further goals and policies affecting the adequacy of roadway facilities serving new development, or other regulatory purposes affecting the type, quality, intensity, economic development potential or development timing of land uses within such service areas.
(8) 
The maximum assessable roadway impact fee per service unit for roadway facilities, as may be amended from time-to-time, hereby is declared to be an approximate and appropriate measure of the impacts generated by a new unit of development on the city's roadway system. To the extent that the roadway impact fee collection rate charged against a new development, as may be amended from time-to-time, is less than the maximum assessable roadway impact fee per service unit assessed, such difference hereby is declared to be founded on policies unrelated to measurement of the impacts of the new development on the city's roadway system. The maximum assessable roadway impact fee may be used in evaluating any claim by a property owner that the dedication or construction of a capital improvement within a service area imposed as a condition of development approval pursuant to the city's subdivision or development regulations is disproportionate to the impacts created by the development on the city's roadway system.
(Ord. No. CSO#1479-08-2020, § 1, 9-8-2020; Ord. No. 5478-06-2024, 6/3/2024)
The city may credit the contribution of land, improvements or funding for construction of any System facility that is required or agreed to by the city, pursuant to rules established in this section or pursuant to administrative guidelines promulgated by the city with the following limitations:
(1) 
The credit shall be associated with the plat or other detailed plan of development for the property that is to be served by the roadway facility.
(2) 
Master planned community projects, including subdivisions containing multiple phases, and whether approved before or after the effective date of these impact fee regulations, may apply for credits against roadway impact fees for the entire project based upon contributions of land, improvements or funds toward construction of system facilities. Credits shall be determined by comparing costs of roadway capital improvements supplied by the project with the costs of roadway capital improvements to be utilized by development within the project, utilizing a methodology approved by the city. The credit determination shall be incorporated within an agreement for credits, in accordance with this article. The roadway requirements of an agreement for credits shall not be less than what is required by the city's development code.
(3) 
The city's current policies and regulations shall apply to determine a new development's obligations to construct adjacent System facilities. The obligation to construct, however, shall not exceed the maximum assessable roadway impact fee assessed against the new development under exhibit B, schedule 1 to Ordinance 5478-6-2024. Construction required under such policies and regulations shall be a credit against the amount of impact fees otherwise due. If the costs of constructing a System facility in accordance with the current city policies and regulations are greater than the amount of the roadway impact fee collection rate due, the amount of the credit due shall be deemed to be 100% of the assessed impact fees and no impact fee shall be collected thereafter for the development, unless the number of service units is subsequently increased.
(4) 
All credits against roadway impact fees shall be based upon standards promulgated by the city, which may be adopted as administrative guidelines, including the following standards:
a. 
No credit shall be given for the dedication or construction of site-related facilities.
b. 
No credit shall be given for a roadway facility which is not identified within the roadway impact fee capital improvements plan, unless the facility is on or qualifies for inclusion on the mobility plan and the city agrees that such improvement supplies capacity to new developments other than the development paying the roadway impact fee and provisions for credits are incorporated in an agreement for credits pursuant to this article.
c. 
In no event will the city grant a credit when no roadway impact fees can be collected pursuant to this article or for any amount exceeding the roadway impact fee collection rate due for the development, unless expressly agreed to by the city in writing.
d. 
The city may participate in the costs of a System facility to be dedicated to the city, including costs that exceed the amount of the maximum assessable impact fees for the development, in accordance with policies and rules established by the city. The amount of any credit for construction of a System facility shall be reduced by the amount of any participation funds received from the city.
e. 
Where funds for roadway facilities have been escrowed under an agreement that was executed with the city prior to the effective date of this article, the following rules apply:
1. 
Funds expended under the agreement for roadway facilities shall first be credited against the amount of roadway impact fees that would have been due under exhibit B, schedule 2 for those units of development for which building permits already have been issued;
2. 
Any remaining funds shall be credited against impact fees due for the development under exhibit B, schedule 2, at the time building permits are issued.
(5) 
Credits for construction of capital improvements shall be deemed created when the capital improvements are completed and the city has accepted the facility, or in the case of capital improvements constructed and accepted prior to the effective date of this article, on such effective date. Credits created after the effective date of this article shall expire ten (10) years from the date the credit was created. Credits arising prior to such effective date shall expire ten (10) years from such effective date. Upon application by the property owner, the city may agree to extend the expiration date for the credit on mutually agreeable terms.
(6) 
Unless an agreement for credits, as described herein, is executed providing for a different manner of applying credits against roadway impact fees due, a credit associated with a plat shall be applied at the time of application for the first building permit and, at each building permit application thereafter, to reduce impact fees due until the credit is exhausted.
(7) 
An owner of a new development who has constructed or financed a roadway capital improvement or roadway facility expansion designated in the roadway impact fee capital improvements plans, or other roadway capital improvement that supplies excess capacity, as required or authorized by the city, shall enter into an agreement with the city to provide for credits against roadway impact fees due for the development in accordance with this subsection. The agreement shall identify the basis for and the method for computing and the amount of the credit due and any reduction in credits attributable to consumption of road capacity by developed lots or tracts served by the roadway capital improvements. For multi-phased projects, the city may require that total credits be proportionally allocated among the phases. If authorized by the city, the agreement also may provide for allocation of credits among new developments within the project, and provisions for the timing and collection of impact fees.
(Ord. No. CSO#1479-08-2020, § 1, 9-8-2020; Ord. No. 5478-06-2024, 6/3/2024)
The roadway impact fees collected for each service area pursuant to these regulations may be used to finance or to recoup the costs of any roadway improvements or facility expansions identified in the roadway impact fee capital improvements plan for the service area, including but not limited to the construction contract price, surveying and engineering fees, and land acquisition costs (including land purchases, court awards and costs, attorney's fees, and expert witness fees). Roadway impact fees may also be used to pay the principal sum and interest and other finance costs on bonds, notes or other obligations issued by or on behalf of the city to finance such roadway improvements or facility expansions. Roadway impact fees may also be used to pay fees actually contracted to be paid to an independent qualified engineer or financial consultant for preparation of or updating the roadway impact fee capital improvements plan. The capital improvements advisory committee shall recommend a roadway impact fee funding plan identifying the projects to be funded with roadway impact fees. City council shall have final approval of the funding plan. Impact fees collected may not be used to pay for the expenses prohibited by statute.
(Ord. No. CSO#1479-08-2020, § 1, 9-8-2020; Ord. No. 5478-06-2024, 6/3/2024)
The city's finance department shall establish an account to which interest is allocated for each service area for which a roadway impact fee is imposed pursuant to this article. Each impact fee collected within the service area shall be deposited in such account with the following regulations:
(1) 
Interest earned on the account into which the impact fees are deposited shall be considered funds of the account and shall be used solely for the purposes authorized in this article and the statute.
(2) 
The city's finance department shall establish adequate financial and accounting controls to ensure that roadway impact fees disbursed from the account are utilized solely for the purposes authorized in this article and the statute. Disbursement of funds shall be authorized by the city at such times as are reasonably necessary to carry out the purposes and intent of this article; provided, however, that any roadway impact fee paid shall be expended within a reasonable period of time, but not to exceed ten (10) years from the date the fee is deposited into the account.
(3) 
The city's finance department shall maintain and keep financial records for roadway impact fees, which shall show the source and disbursement of all fees collected in or expended from each service area. The records of the account into which impact fees are deposited shall be open for public inspection and copying during ordinary business hours. The city may establish a fee for copying services.
(Ord. No. CSO#1479-08-2020, § 1, 9-8-2020; Ord. No. 5478-06-2024, 6/3/2024)
Roadway impact fees established by these regulations are additional and supplemental to, and not in substitution of, any other requirements imposed by the city on the development of land or the issuance of building permits or certificates of occupancy. Such impact fees are intended to be consistent with and to further the policies of the Imagine Burleson Comprehensive plan, the capital improvements plan, the zoning ordinances, subdivision regulations and other city policies, ordinances and resolutions by which the city seeks to ensure the provision of adequate public facilities in conjunction with the development of land. This article shall not affect, in any manner, the permissible use of property, density of development, design, and improvement standards and requirements, or any other aspect of the development of land or provision of public improvements subject to the zoning and subdivision regulations or other regulations and policies of the city, which shall be operative and remain in full force and effect without limitation with respect to all such development.
(Ord. No. CSO#1479-08-2020, § 1, 9-8-2020; Ord. No. 5478-06-2024, 6/3/2024)
The city shall update its land use assumptions and capital improvements plan and make any revision of fees as indicated below:
(1) 
The city shall update its land use assumptions and roadway impact fee capital improvements plans and shall recalculate the roadway impact fees based thereon in accordance with the procedures set forth in Texas Local Gov't Code, ch. 395, or in any successor statute. Newly annexed territories: Upon annexation, a newly annexed area shall be immediately added into the nearest, adjacent roadway service area so long as in doing so the roadway service area still complies with the distance requirements in chapter 395 of the Texas Local Government Code. The collection rate shall be assessed at the rate of the existing roadway service area and may be adjusted upon a future study update. In the event that said addition to the nearest, adjacent roadway service area brings that roadway service area out of compliance with the distance requirements in chapter 395 of the Texas Local Government Code, a new impact fee study shall be commenced as soon as possible, and upon adoption of an updated study, the roadway service areas shall be adjusted to incorporate the newly annexed area. However, this does not preclude the city from reviewing its land use assumptions, roadway impact fee capital improvements plans, roadway impact fees, and other factors such as market conditions more frequently than provided for herein to determine whether the land use assumptions and roadway capital improvements plans should be updated and the roadway impact fees recalculated accordingly, utilizing statutory update procedures.
(2) 
Exhibit B, schedule 2, to Ordinance 5478-6-2024 may be amended without revising the land use assumptions and roadway capital improvements plans at any time prior to the update provided for in this section, provided that the roadway impact fee collection rate to be collected under exhibit B, schedule 2 do not exceed the maximum assessable roadway impact fees assessed under exhibit B, schedule 1.
(3) 
If, at the time an update is required as indicated herein and the city council determines that no change to the land use assumptions, roadway impact fee capital improvements plan or roadway impact fees are needed, it may dispense with such update by following the procedures in Texas Local Gov't Code, section 395.0575 or its successor statute.
(4) 
The city may amend any other provisions of this article in accordance with procedures for ordinance amendments contained in the city's charter or state law.
(Ord. No. CSO#1479-08-2020, § 1, 9-8-2020; Ord. No. 5478-06-2024, 6/3/2024)
(a) 
Upon application, any roadway impact fee or portion thereof collected pursuant to this article, which has not been expended within the service area within ten (10) years from the date of payment, shall be refunded to the recordowner of the property for which the impact fee was paid or, if the impact fee was paid by another governmental entity, to such governmental entity, together with interest calculated from the date of collection to the date of refund at the statutory rate as set forth in section 302.002, Tex. Fin. Code, or its successor statute. The application for refund pursuant to this section shall be submitted within sixty (60) days after the expiration of the ten-year period for expenditure of the impact fee. An impact fee shall be considered expended on a first-in, first-out basis.
(b) 
An impact fee collected pursuant to this article shall also be considered expended if the total expenditures for capital improvements or roadway facility expansions authorized within the service area within ten (10) years following the date of payment exceeds the total fees collected within the service area for such improvements or expansions during such period.
(c) 
If a refund is due pursuant to subsections (a) or (b), the city shall divide the difference between the amount of expenditures and the amount of the impact fees collected by the total number of service units assumed within the service area for the period to determine the refund due per service unit. The refund to the recordowner shall be calculated by multiplying the refund due per service unit by the number of service units for the development for which the fee was paid, and interest due shall be calculated upon that amount.
(Ord. No. CSO#1479-08-2020, § 1, 9-8-2020; Ord. No. 5478-06-2024, 6/3/2024)
If the building permit for a new development for which a roadway impact fee has been paid has expired, and a modified or new application has not been filed within six (6) months of such expiration, the city shall, upon written application, rebate the amount of the impact fee to the recordowner of the property for which the impact fee was paid. If no application for rebate pursuant to this subsection has been filed within this period, no rebate shall become due.
(Ord. No. CSO#1479-08-2020, § 1, 9-8-2020; Ord. No. 5478-06-2024, 6/3/2024)
The property owner or applicant for new development may appeal the applicability or amount of the roadway impact fee or the availability or amount of credits or refunds to the city council using the following procedure:
(1) 
The burden of proof shall be on the applicant to demonstrate that relief should be granted by the city.
(2) 
The applicant must file a written notice of appeal with the city manager or his/her designee within thirty (30) days following the decision being appealed. Along with the notice of appeal, an applicant may request an alternative service unit computation for land uses not contained with the latest edition of the ITE Trip Generation Manual by submitting a trip generation study demonstrating the appropriateness of the trip generation rates for the proposed development. An applicant may also include an alternative service unit calculation.
(3) 
The city manager or his/her designee ("manager") may:
(A) 
Resolve the appeal, if the applicant agrees with the manager's decision; or
(B) 
If the applicant does not agree, refer the matter to the capital improvements advisory committee to make a decision, along with the manager's recommendation and any trip generation study provided, if any.
(4) 
If city council review is requested by the applicant after receiving the manager's and/or capital improvements advisory committee decision, the city secretary shall schedule a public hearing at which the applicant may present testimony and evidence before the city council. The city council shall act on the appeal within 60 days of receipt of the notice of appeal by the city, unless otherwise agreed by the applicant.
(5) 
If the notice of appeal is accompanied by a payment or other security satisfactory to the city attorney in an amount equal to the original determination of the roadway impact fee due, the city shall process and may issue a building permit if other requirements are met while the appeal is pending.
(6) 
If the city council allows for a different amount of the roadway impact fee due for a new development under this section to be paid, it may cause to be appropriated from other city funds the amount of the reduction in the impact fee to the account for the service area in which the property is located.