The city of Pflugerville is considering implementing roadway impact fees to help offset costs of future development.
The City Council Tuesday night approved a $85,000 contract for engineering firm Kimley-Horn to conduct a study on the fees, which are assessed to developers for roads and other infrastructure.
Planning Director Emily Barron said the roadway impact fees would be one-time costs for developers as a means to defray costs the city accrues through new development.
She said the fees are similar to the city’s water and wastewater impact fees.
Kimley-Horn, which is also a consultant in creating the city’s Transportation Master Plan, presented funding opportunities for transportation needs to the council in November, which included the potential implementation of roadway impact fees.
Jake Gutekunst from Kimley-Horn told council members that various impact fees could be implemented for certain areas of the city. Those impact fee amounts could relate to infrastructure improvements in the area, the costs associated with those improvements and how that area is expected to grow over the next 10 years, he said.
Gutekunst said the fee would be applied to every development within the same city density and would be set before the developer completes a traffic impact analysis.
Several Central Texas cities have implemented similar impact fees as they deal with rapid growth.
The Round Rock City Council early last year approved establishing roadway impact fees this year. The plan has the fees incrementally increasing over a four-year period, with no fees assessed until 2021.
Barron said the council will only consider adopting the impact fees once the study is completed.
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