If people keep asking the same question, someone would answer, right? Anyone??
"If you're having trouble now supplying police and fire service, what's going to happen when you add more houses and you haven't collected the money to pay for those police and fire services?" Fuller said.
That’s the telling sign in the article in the Fort Worth Star-Telegram where everyone wants new fees. Those that have to pay them say it’s too high. Those that don’t say it’s not high enough.
The council is scheduled to vote on the fee proposal Feb. 5. The increase would take effect April 1, with developments that are already platted grandfathered in for two years at the current fees.
The city charges transportation impact fees on new residential and commercial developments, and the money must be used to build roads into that development.
Under the staff proposal, the fee on a single-family home -- paid before permits are issued -- would rise to $3,680 from $2,000. The staff also is proposing that the fee rise again in 2015, to $5,112 on a single-family home.
Development and business groups are backing a proposal led by Nicol's group that would raise the impact fees to $3,000 on a single-family home.
At the city's current growth rate, it takes nearly six miles of new arterial roads per year to serve new developments, staff members estimate. The current fees pay for 1.1 miles, said Kate Beck, the city's transportation planning administrator. The staff's proposal would pay for 1.8 miles.
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