Wylie City Council Agrees with Dallas BA on Keeping Impact Fees Reasonable
The Wylie City Council, on Feb. 11, voted to amend the municipality’s roadway, water and wastewater impact fees.
In accordance with state law, Wylie performed a land use assessment and drafted a capital improvements plan detailing infrastructure projects based on a 10 year growth forecast. After hearing from the Dallas Builders Association, and voicing their own concern about the level of increase in the proposed impact fees, the city council voted unanimously to approve roadway impact fees at a rate significantly less than proposed in the report. In fact, the fee approved by council calculates to more than $5,000 less per rooftop than what was proposed by the study for the city’s East service area. Council chose to continue normalizing the rate across the city and opted to keep the calculation related to inflation.
The city also approved moderate updates to water and wastewater impact fees.
The City Council also adopted a recommendation from the Dallas BA to offer a grace period for those builders and developers who have submitted preliminary plats, to obtain final plat approval and maintain their assessment of impact fees at the existing rate. Council’s decision was to set the grace period for 90 days. In an effort to keep fees reasonable, but also keep the city on pace for infrastructure, the council opted to set the duration of these fees, before the next review and revision, at three years.
Builders and developers in Wylie are encouraged to check with the city regarding how the updates affect their projects, as well as to stay up to date on other building related ordinances.