§ 114-99. Impact fees; generally.

(a)

Except as otherwise provided herein, each new development within the city limits and/or extraterritorial jurisdiction shall pay an impact fee for water and wastewater improvements and/or facilities necessitated by and attributable to that development. Impact fees shall be assessed against and collected from new development on the basis of service units.

(b)

The impact fee per service unit that shall be assessed against new development and collected is established as a combined rate of $3,524.00 per service unit of which $1,087.00 is attributable to water and $2,437.00 is attributable to wastewater.

(c)

The city council may amend impact fees to be collected from new developments without amending its capital improvements plan adopted herein as long as the impact fees to be collected do not exceed the maximum impact fees per service unit that may be assessed for such facilities.

(d)

The city council may reduce or waive an impact fee for service units located within a neighborhood empowerment zone created in accordance with V.T.C.A., Local Government Code ch. 378, that qualifies for such reduction or waiver under such zone, once the service unit is constructed. If the service unit is not constructed, the city council may reverse its decision to waiver or reduce the impact fee and the city council may assess an impact fee at any time during the development approval or building process or after the building process if an impact fee was not already assessed.

(Ord. No. 10,456, § 3, 10-23-06; Ord. No. 11,285, § 1, 1-14-10; Ord. No. 11,657, § 3, 6-9-11; Ord. No. 12,540, § 3, 5-8-14; Ord. No. 13,384 , § 3, 1-12-17)