Impact Fee Advisory Committee May 11, 2021 4:30 PM Virtual Meeting held via WebEx Members of the public who would like to join the virtual meeting may do so by selecting this link https://austintexas.webex.com/austintexas/j.php?MTID=mac3c2e1b6735f96e8f8709d2b7a5b5f5 or by dialing 1-408-418-9388 (Toll) or 1-844-992-4726 (Toll Free). Meeting number/Access code: 1874075537. CURRENT BOARD MEMBERS: Kris Bailey Lance Parisher Susan Turrieta Donny Hamilton, Jr. Channy Soeur Dick Kallerman Bobak Tehrany, Chair AGENDA CALL TO ORDER – May 11, 2021 4:30 p.m. CITIZEN COMMUNICATION: GENERAL Members of the public wishing to speak during citizen communication must register in advance by emailing their name, email address and/or phone number to liane.conte@austintexas.gov no later than Tuesday, May 11, 2021 at 12 p.m. If you experience technical difficulties logging in or calling in, please call Liane Conte at (512) 289-3053. Please indicate in your email if you’d like to speak on a specific item. The first 10 speakers signed up will each be allowed three-minutes to address their concerns regarding items NOT posted on the agenda. Speakers who would like to address items ON the agenda will be called on by the Chair to speak for up to three-minutes when that item is taken up. 1. APPROVAL OF MINUTES a. Approval of minutes from the January 19, 2021 Impact Fee Advisory Committee meeting. 2. NEW BUSINESS a. Staff briefing on draft report to City Council on street impact fee program implementation and b. Discussion and possible action on future Impact Fee Advisory Committee meeting dates for existing fee review findings. 2021. FUTURE AGENDA ITEMS ADJOURNMENT The City of Austin is committed to compliance with the American with Disabilities Act. Reasonable modifications and equal access to communications will be provided upon request. Meeting locations are planned with wheelchair access. If requiring Sign Language Interpreters or alternative formats, please give notice at least 2 days (48 hours) before the meeting date. Please call Liane Miller at the Austin Transportation Department at 512-974-7922, for additional information; TTY users route through Relay Texas at 711. For more information on the Impact Fee Advisory Committee, please contact Liane Conte at liane.conte@austintexas.gov, (512) 974-7922 or visit www.austintexas.gov/ifac.
Briefing on Street Impact Fee Implementation Impact Fee Advisory Committee| May 11, 2021 1 AUSTIN TRANSPORTATION DEPARTMENT Briefing Overview • Staffing update • Street Impact Fee Implementation Overview • Report to Council • Stakeholder Communication • Fee Review 2 AUSTIN TRANSPORTATION DEPARTMENT Implementation Timeline 3 AUSTIN TRANSPORTATION DEPARTMENT Implementation Projects • Communications • E-newsletters, website, FAQ, contact info • Process • Internal Procedures (i.e., Administrative Guidelines) • Interdepartmental Procedures • Procedures for Applicants • SIF Estimator Worksheet • Transparency • Database & Public Web Viewer (per Council direction) • Financial System & Tracking • Ongoing Reporting (Impact Fee Advisory Committee) • Roadway Capacity Plan Project Prioritization & Selection 4 AUSTIN TRANSPORTATION DEPARTMENT Council Direction on Implementation 5 AUSTIN TRANSPORTATION DEPARTMENT Council Direction: Report to Council by June 1 “Council directs staff to continue working with stakeholders to address outstanding questions and concerns, as well as continue the cross-departmental effort to evaluate all existing fees levied on development projects and identify fees that could either be eliminated or reduced to offset the increases from street impact fees. Staff shall provide council with an update on these efforts at or before the June 1st, 2021 Council Work Session.” 6 AUSTIN TRANSPORTATION DEPARTMENT Stakeholder Communication Past Meetings: • Jan. 19 – Impact Fee Advisory Committee • March 30 – Real Estate Council of Austin • April 19 – American Institute of Architects – Austin Chapter Upcoming Opportunities: • Info Session on Ordinances – May (date TBD); virtual • Info Sessions on SIF Estimator Worksheet – June (dates TBD) • Notification of upcoming meetings via email list & department communications • Website updates (SIF webpage, TDS webpages): adding FAQ, additional detail on changes to TIA process • Staff are available to present to groups as requested 7 AUSTIN TRANSPORTATION DEPARTMENT Review of Development Fees • Administrative fees: Cost of Service (funds staff review and administration of development applications) • Mitigation fees (funds identified street improvements to offset impact of development) service • Administrative fees reviewed/updated each year with budget based on the cost of • No fee changes proposed for FY22 (begins Oct. 1, 2021) • Implementation of Street Impact Fee will not increase the review (administrative) fees for development 8 AUSTIN TRANSPORTATION DEPARTMENT Administrative Development Review Fees • Zoning, Subdivision, and Site Plan review for all proposed projects • Shared or off-site parking; analysis of existing parking lot, Transportation (T) Plans • Review/approval …
Impact Fee Advisory Committee January 19, 2021 4:30 PM Virtual Meeting held via WebEx Members of the public who would like to join the virtual meeting may do so by selecting this link https://austintexas.webex.com/austintexas/j.php?MTID=m3a615932d1e801d80bb09ea60f03bdde or by dialing 1-408-418-9388 (Toll) or 1-844-992-4726 (Toll Free). CURRENT BOARD MEMBERS: Kris Bailey Lance Parisher Susan Turrieta Donny Hamilton, Jr. Channy Soeur Dick Kallerman Bobak Tehrany, Chair CALL TO ORDER – January 19, 2021 4:30 p.m. AGENDA CITIZEN COMMUNICATION: GENERAL Members of the public wishing to speak during citizen communication must register in advance by emailing their name, email address and/or phone number to liane.conte@austintexas.gov no later than Monday, January 18, 2021 at 5 p.m. If you experience technical difficulties logging in or calling in, please call Liane Conte at (512) 289-3053. Please indicate in your email if you’d like to speak on a specific item. The first 10 speakers signed up will each be allowed three-minutes to address their concerns regarding items NOT posted on the agenda. Speakers who would like to address items ON the agenda will be called on by the Chair to speak for up to three-minutes when that item is taken up. 1. APPROVAL OF MINUTES a. Approval of minutes from the September 15, 2020 Impact Fee Advisory Committee meeting. 2. NEW BUSINESS a. Discussion and action on the water and wastewater Semi-Annual Impact Fee Report for April 1, 2020 through September 30, 2020 as set forth in the functions of the advisory committee, Austin City Code and Chapter 395.058 of the Texas Local Government Code. b. Staff briefing on adopted street impact fee ordinances and program implementation. c. Discussion and possible action on future Impact Fee Advisory Committee meeting dates for 2021. FUTURE AGENDA ITEMS ADJOURNMENT The City of Austin is committed to compliance with the American with Disabilities Act. Reasonable modifications and equal access to communications will be provided upon request. Meeting locations are planned with wheelchair access. If requiring Sign Language Interpreters or alternative formats, please give notice at least 2 days (48 hours) before the meeting date. Please call Liane Miller at the Austin Transportation Department at 512-974-7922, for additional information; TTY users route through Relay Texas at 711. For more information on the Impact Fee Advisory Committee, please contact Liane Conte at liane.conte@austintexas.gov, (512) 974-7922 or visit www.austintexas.gov/ifac.
CITY OF AUSTIN, TEXAS AUSTIN WATER SEMI-ANNUAL IMPACT FEE COLLECTIONS REPORT April 1, 2020 through September 30, 2020 City of Austin | Austin Water P.O. Box 1088 Austin, TX 78767 AustinWater.org Martin Tower, P.E., Managing Engineer, Austin Water Aurora Pizano, Financial Manager II, Austin Water January 11, 2021 Semi-Annual Impact Fee Collections Report for April 1, 2020 to September 30, 2020 MEMORANDUM To: From: Date: Subject: The Semi-Annual Impact Fee Collections Report as of September 30, 2020 is attached for your reference. The report is based on financial information reported in the City’s accounting system, ADV3, and in AMANDA, one of the City’s accounts receivable systems. Water fees collected during this six-month reporting period were $1,698,723 lower than the amount collected during the April through September reporting period a year prior; wastewater fees collected were $126,918 higher than those collected during the same period one year ago. Interest earnings for the six-month period equaled $90,159. The combined utility impact fees collected, plus interest, during the six-month period totaled $18,810,834. Of this total, $13,223,252 was for water and $5,587,582 was for wastewater. Total combined utility impact fees collected, plus interest, since the adoption of the current ordinance on June 20, 1990, through September 30, 2020, equal $364,289,239. Of this total, $244,965,939 was collected for water and $119,323,300 was collected for wastewater. Overall, combined collections were nearly $2 million more in FY2020 when compared to FY2019. As of September 30, 2020, the cash balances in the water and wastewater impact fee funds were $23,797,958 and $9,019,534 respectively, for a combined total of $32,817,492. Please let me know if you have any questions or need additional information. I can be reached at 512-972-0331. Cc: Greg Meszaros, Director Joseph Gonzales, Assistant Director, Financial Services Jonathan Orenstein, Financial Manager III, Consumer Services Division Teresa Lutes, P.E., Managing Engineer, Systems Planning Division Attachment: Semi-Annual Impact Fee Collections Report Semi-Annual Impact Fee Collections October 1, 2016 through September 31, 2017 Texas Local Government Code, Chapter 395, Section 395.058, requires that the Impact Fee Advisory Committee “file semiannual reports with respect to the progress of the capital improvements plan and report to the political subdivision any perceived inequities in implementing the plan or imposing the impact fee.” This report supports the committee by providing financial information about the collection of impact fees, and the value of fee waivers and exemptions. Waivers are granted for policy reasons or are …
ORDINANCE NO. 20201210-062 AN ORDINANCE AMENDING CITY CODE CHAPTER 25- 6 ESTABLISHING A STREET IMPACT FEE PROGRAM. BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF AUSTIN: PART 1. FINDINGS. The City Council makes the following findings in support o f this ordinance: (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7) (8) Texas Local Government Code Chapter 395 ("Chapter 395") authorizes the City to offset the impacts of new development on the City's roadway network by imposing street impact fees by service area within city limits. The City has adopted land use assumptions by service area that project anticipated residential and employment growth from new development within each delineated service area over a ten-year period, in accordance with the methodology prescribed by Chapter 395. The City has prepared and adopted a roadway capacity plan that identifies improvements necessary to serve new development within each capital service area over a ten-year period, in accordance with the methodology prescribed by Chapter 395. The City has prepared and adopted a Transportation Plan that addresses all transportation needs within the City and that contains strategies for reducing the need for new capital improvements for the roadway system in the future by shifting demand to other modes of transportation. The Transportation Plan contains strategies for funding transportation needs. Street impact fees for a new development are calculated according to the trip generation rate and trip length for the new development. Street impact fees for a new development are calculated according to the standardized trip generation rate and trip length within the service area for the new development. Overall vehicular demand for roadway improvements generated by a new development can be reduced from that projected in the roadway capacity plan Page 1 of 14 by employing transportation demand management strategies recognized by the professional transportation engineering and planning fields. (9) It is appropriate to reduce street impact fees for applied measures that result in reduction in overall vehicular demand for a new development. (10) The strategies for reduction in overall vehicular demand from a new development include the following: (a) (b) (c) internal development; trip capture resulting from mixed land uses within a new proximity ofa development to existing and planned transit facilities that facilitate use of transit as an alternative to vehicular transportation; and reduction in the number of parking spaces and other parking management techniques within a new development that discourage demand for …
Impact Fee Advisory Committee January 19, 2021 4:30 PM Virtual Meeting held via WebEx Members of the public who would like to join the virtual meeting may do so by selecting this link https://austintexas.webex.com/austintexas/j.php?MTID=m3a615932d1e801d80bb09ea60f03bdde or by dialing 1-408-418-9388 (Toll) or 1-844-992-4726 (Toll Free). MEETING MINUTES - APPROVED CURRENT BOARD MEMBERS: Kris Bailey Lance Parisher Susan Turrieta Donny Hamilton, Jr. Channy Soeur Dick Kallerman Bobak Tehrany, Chair CALL TO ORDER – January 19, 2021, 4:30 p.m. Chair Tehrany called the meeting to order at 4:34 pm with a quorum present. Committee Members in Attendance: Kris Bailey, Donny Hamilton, Dick Kallerman, Lance Parisher, Channy Soeur, Bobak Tehrany and Susan Turrieta. City of Austin Staff in Attendance: Liane Conte (Austin Transportation), Aurora Pizano (Austin Water), Upal Barua (Austin Transportation). CITIZEN COMMUNICATION: GENERAL Members of the public wishing to speak during citizen communication must register in advance by emailing their name, email address and/or phone number to liane.conte@austintexas.gov no later than Monday, January 18, 2021 at 5 p.m. If you experience technical difficulties logging in or calling in, please call Liane Conte at (512) 289-3053. Please indicate in your email if you’d like to speak on a specific item. The first 10 speakers signed up will each be allowed three-minutes to address their concerns regarding items NOT posted on the agenda. Speakers who would like to address items ON the agenda will be called on by the Chair to speak for up to three-minutes when that item is taken up. None 1. APPROVAL OF MINUTES a. Approval of minutes from the September 15, 2020 Impact Fee Advisory Committee meeting. Committee Member (CM) Turrieta moved approval, CM Parisher seconded and the minutes were approved 7-0. 2. NEW BUSINESS a. Discussion and action on the water and wastewater Semi-Annual Impact Fee Report for April 1, 2020 through September 30, 2020 as set forth in the functions of the advisory committee, Austin City Code and Chapter 395.058 of the Texas Local Government Code. Aurora Pizano (Austin Water) presented the semi-annual report to the committee. Ms. Pizano reported that the collections were $2 million higher in 2020 than during the same period in 2019, and that anticipated impacts from the pandemic in the second half of the fiscal year did not occur The City of Austin is committed to compliance with the American with Disabilities Act. Reasonable modifications and equal access to communications will be provided upon request. …
