In 2017, the City of Schertz adopted a Master Thoroughfare Plan and in 2018, established a Roadway Capital Recovery Fee (roadway impact fee) Program.  In 2022, an amendment was made to the program to include areas annexed into the City Limits into service areas and to add roadway segments in those areas to the Roadway Capital Improvement Plan (CIP).  During that update, neither Land Use Assumptions nor impact fee collection rates were updated.

Because of recent annexations and the 2025 update to the City's Comprehensive Land Use Plan, it is recommended that updates to the Master Thoroughfare Plan and Roadway Impact Fee Program be undertaken.

The updated Comprehensive Plan and recent and projected development patterns will be used to inform the update to the Master Thoroughfare Plan.  Texas Local Government Code Chapter 395 governs the process to update the impact fee program and rates.  The consultant will provide the required technical analysis to determine the maximum assessable roadway impact fee in each of the four service areas.  That analysis will include preparation of updated land use assumptions and associated growth rate to be reviewed and recommended (either as presented or as modified) by the City's Capital Improvement Advisory Committee (CIAC), an update to the roadway CIP (including updated planning level cost projections), and calculation of maximum assessable fees.     

Kimley-Horn and Associates, Inc., (Kimley-Horn) is one of the City's on-call engineering firms and is qualified to perform this work.

The goal of Resolution 25-R-096 is to authorize the execution of a task order agreement for Kimley-Horn to provide professional services for the City's update to its Master Thoroughfare Plan and Roadway Impact Fee Program and Rates.

Proper planning is needed to guide the continued, orderly development of the City's thoroughfare infrastructure.  Reasonable and fair assessment of impact fees generates revenue to be used for expansion and improvement of that infrastructure to serve the growing community.  The completion of this task order directly supports the City's strategic goal of Infrastructure Investment and the objective of development of roadways and transportation infrastructure.

Staff recommends approval of Resolution 25-R-096 authorizing the professional services task order agreement with Kimley-Horn for the 2025 Roadway Impact Fee and Master Thoroughfare Plan Update.

A base amount of $149,460 and a not-to-exceed total of $170,000 is proposed for this professional services agreement.  Funding will come from roadway capital recovery fund accounts and expenditures will be distributed equally among the four service area accounts.

Approve Resolution 25-R-096.