001Call to order this special meeting city council at 4:33 p.m. Council Chambers. >> Item three, discussion of the Navas Police Department's 2025 racial profiling data report. Mayor and Council, as Chief Mai is coming up, uh just a real quick uh note for you all. Item eight on this agenda uh would have dealt with our uh code of ethics policy and council relations policy. Uh city attorney and I met just a short while ago. And because we didn't get that prepared in time for you to to send it to you all to review before tonight, we're going to just defer that one until your next meeting. So, um, that gives us a little bit of extra, uh, time on the rest of the items, but don't want you to feel like you have to push on
002the ones previous so that you know automatically that that one that one will be deferred. >> Chief, mayor, city council, Mike, chief of police, in front of you, uh, I'm here to present the annual uh, racial profiling report for the NASA Police Department. It's required by Texas law annually to uh have our adopted anti-racial profiling policies in place. Uh present this report to y'all and then submit it to state Texas uh prior to March 1st. So in in the package just basically shows we had 5,726 uh traffic contacts and uh the second column shows the census that they provide us for the city which shows 7,998 u population of our context. 34% were female, 65% male, and throughout the entire year, we had zero racial profile compliance file. So, I know a little bit more
003detail when we ran our um our stats um beyond what we have to submit to the state. U 3600 a little over 3,600 of these stops were made in city streets, a little over 1,900 on the state highway. Um, I know some of the questions in the past, how many what's the percentage basically of out of town to in town? So, we can't figure that out by that. So, we do it by zip code. And we had 34 are non-residents basically is what what uh our projections come to. So, 75% are outside um having a zip code non 77868. Did they change the format on it that you don't have to report as much? >> Yes, that is the true reporting system that has to be submitted to the state of Texas on that one
004>> because I know they had questions about identifying the race before stopping on how many you did that. >> Our system goes does go into more detail. As we transitioned, the beginning of the year we were doing handwritten citations and we moved to the electronic e ticket writers. This next year we'll be able to do a lot more with the complete 100% uh detailed stuff for with the e ticket writers that helps. So we're still this year we had to go half and half half with the handwritten stuff which we had to go through individually and then going through that uh over 5,700 of them and a year was a little bit get down to put them both together to get exactly our exact numbers. But I do have some of the stuff basically um
005citations were a little bit over 1,800 warnings were about 3,700. um any physical force used. Out of those 5,700, only three of them officers reported any type of uh use of force during the traffic stop. Do >> you have any kind of division about trucks versus cars? >> No, it's not that good. I mean, if we could we would maybe have to look at this new electronic system if we can decipher Ken where Peter built, we'd have to put it specific. the make of the vehicle and that and that would something we'd have to probably create a program to do that or we could go back we could yes now that we have the electronic one look at specifically the city ordinance for truck route violation we can do that yes uh it' be better
006once we start now January 1 through this year we can show that and we can we can do that now with this electronic system by the specific uh traffic offense. You can go that route. >> Mr. Mayor, I recommend we accept the report and place it in the files. Second, >> this is this is council workshop discussion. >> This is action requested. Yeah, >> I think originally I probably put it in the council and then we changed it over, but I just have to now present it and then show that I am presenting to you all prior to presenting to the state of Texas. >> Okay. Excuse me. Item four, discussion on the 2025 annual report of the police department. >> This is something we started about two year two more two years ago, third
007year to do this. just an overview of the police department just to give you all some details of uh how it currently is standing and uh and moving into this upcoming year. >> Thank you. Press okay your computer. >> So it's our view of 2025. Um, I know I think I gave the print out to the slides in your packet. What number would that be, Susan? In the book, >> um, it's number four, but there there was not an attachment in the Yeah, it's not working. >> How about >> Okay, next one. Next one. This is just our organizational chart. uh slowly revamping a little bit but we have a CI sergeant who oversees uh currently right now is overseeing the school resource officers four positions there the investigation uh investigators five as well as
008the evidence tech our patrol sergeants we have two patrol sergeants each over one corporal and they are both over um the positions available for three u night officers and three day shift officers dispatch division has six employees our traffic unit has two And then records division has two uh currently is our patrol staffing um seven full-time officers that are out on their own. We have three cadets. Two are currently at the TIS Police Academy. One will be going to the academy in April. This our dispatch center. Next, last year we had over 21,000 uh calls for service uh through dispatch. It's it's obviously increased a little bit. Um they handle everything. Phone calls, 911 calls, non-emergency calls, and then all the uh calls from the officers over the radio. Uh with that, the traffic stops,
009crashes, a little over 300 crashes. They also handle medical and fire um all the calls in which is over 1500 medical and fire just alone. No police requested on that. And then also officers do business checks that over 2,000 business checks and then escorts funeral escorts and other type of escorts in town. Our investigations division. So uh this year this past year 875 and that basically just a call for service. It's a little bit beyond that. When the officer arrives there, they're going to need a little bit more investigation needed. it's an offense report. Anything that may be seized, um, an arrest, um, something else that's going to be a lot longer report than just a simple notes on it. Um, so I try to chop it up because it's it's increasing a little bit,
010but proactivity has increased, which proactivity types of a traffic stop that results in maybe a drug seizure or something like that or require an offense report. So reactive calls, if you call in and say burglary or theft or criminal trespass, that would be the reactive side. And out of all those currently just have a little over a hundred of them that are still currently active active. I mean, they're still investigating it, looking into things, waiting for stuff maybe come back from a bank for fraud or they have been pushed over to the district attorney's office and waiting for them to say yes or no, this is enough to to uh continue on with the case. So, their clearance rate is pretty pretty decent uh on that. We haven't been able to divide it up yet
011on what we're actually waiting for maybe from the DA's office, but little bit more u burglaries just under 40 of them. We have eight of them that are still active thefts or that could be from just even from stealing a pack of gum to $100,000. So, every little small thing stolen, that's a piece of property that you have to do an offense report. uh the assaults that could be assault by threat all the way to uh assault with a weapon. Uh driving ones, DWIs, anything uh that nature, reckless driving, those are going to be offense reports. And then weapons, if there's weapon use, narcotics, that's close to one of the highest ones, right? Uh that is the highest one that we have offense reports on. And then our e we had 32 evading, which could
012be foot or vehicle. Does weapons include like just a a shooting like if a if a gun >> weapons offense generally it's a felon possession of firearm or something like that? Uh we've we had less I think less than five shootings last year which have gone down tremendously from I believe the prior two years ago was about 70. So uh but those are more seizure of weapons is what we have on them or fell in possession of firearms. arrest. Uh these are our total arrest 422 in the last two years. It not saying we're trying to increase it, but just showing if they're uh on view type arrest or or warrant arrest. It's gone down a lot of it is um if you ask why has it gone down uh class C's um right now
013the jail suspending class C uh intake. So if warrant or something like that so that a lot of that has gone down uh because of the capacity. Uh we did our average response time which we are able to do that with our CAD system. Uh in progress there's something you're calling in and you see it just right there. A car crash, a theft in progress, anything like that. Uh from the time it is dispatched out uh put into the computer system to the officer arrives on scene just occurred or prior to uh you get home and and see your door was kicked in or you woke up and your vehicle's missing or something like that. So those are that's prior to it occurred at some point some of the time. Our average over all the
014calls is 2 minutes and 37 seconds for a response time to a call which is below the national average. Traffic stops and they uh they the total them keep increasing. Um that's just the increase of the traffic unit being out there being more active. uh officers the ability of uh being proactive. Um 5,799 traffic stops. So it's increased over a thousand from 2024 and the citations a little over 400 more this year. >> I have a question for you and it you may get to it but just because it's on my mind. If if someone is pulled over outside the city limits and given a ticket, is that issued into municipal court or does that go to JP court? If it's outside the city limits, >> when the officer sees the offense occurs, it that's
015where we stated on the thing, this is where it occurred at, the offense occurred at, it may take them a mile or two miles before they get up there to do the traffic stop and then so the offense actually occurred in the city limits. So, the citation's issued to the municipal court. Let's just say that it's a reckless driver or something that hasn't made it to the city and they get pulled over and they get issued a ticket for seeing it outside the city limits. Would that be issued in our court or judicial court or in JP court or does that ever happen? I don't. >> So like reckless driving it would be a class B miss go to jail. But if somebody saw them swerving and so forth, generally our guys will wait at
016city limits for them to enter the city and then they have to observe it in their on view unless you're going to pull over and then you're going to write the basically citizens arrest type stuff. So most of the time it's coming from southbound Brazis County 2154. They're waiting at the river bridge. They see them right there. Our city limits is up near 2154. They may wait till they're a little bit 3090. it occurred up there, but we also may have saw them hitting something, but we're going to use that their call as well to uh to do the traffic stop. It just depends. There's different scenarios. >> I think in my mind, is do we ever lose any of those numbers from if they're not if they're not issued a citation in the municipal
017court, would we ever issue a JP? >> We can >> ticket. >> So, yes, >> so there could be some numbers in here that we're not actually seeing. I don't I'm not accusing anybody, just asking it. >> I mean, you could. Yes. If we get asked to go work 249 or 105, we have the jurisdiction to go out there and work traffic and then if we are in that area, we would issue the citation to the JP of that area. Same with Brazes County. They asked us to come work north of Brazen. We're basically doing a task force to work up there. Then we would issue that citation in that jurisdiction. >> Okay. But if it if it's observed in the city limits and we don't stop them till the FM2 because traffic or whatever
018conditions we're back to the municipal court. >> All right, cool. >> Thank you. >> These are two traffic officers. Uh the truck on the left is the new truck that has the grapple bumper system. Um just the traffic unit, those two officers alone run about 24% of the traffic stops for the agency. Uh, out of those traffic stops, they made 81 arrest and 59 of them being felony arrest and 12 DWIS. They're also responsible for crash investigations when they're on duty. Relieves a lot of the pressure off the patrol officers who have to take the normal calls, which traffic investigations do take quite a while. So, those guys have a little bit more training and crash investigations. So, they handled over 140 of them just this last year on the crashes. Uh, that's sort of
019our heat map. This is what we always talk about with text dot and the step program and all that. We were awarded the grant for step. They want us to focus in on the heat map. The more darker red is where more crashes occur and that's where they want more of the traffic and uh presence to be seen at. And the whole goal of step is to reduce the number of traffic uh crashes and major injuries and fatalities. So this is what text dot is set up based off of the Chris crash system. All the crashes get inputed through text dot. They're the custod of the records. They produce these heat maps and they say this is where you need to focus at for that for that step grant. So you can see our biggest
020areas lau 515 and 105 and then 6 and 90 are pretty high. The other one is the black shure and law and then as it goes down. So that's where we focus on during step and the traffic unit does. of crashes. Um 339, that's every type of crash. If you back into a car or anything like that, but the actually doing the investigation and submitting a state report is 168 reportable ones, 55 of them being major. Um from the prior year, we've decreased the number about 17%. I think that's more the officer presence and getting out there with the uh traffic enforcement. Are we ready to start the drone unit program? We have one licensed, fully licensed drone operator, officer Fritz. Last year he did 30 call outs. Uh majority of time the drone was
021down for a little bit, but uh most of the time our he has also been trained in for major crash investigations. The drone flies over, maps out the entire crash scene. Instead of sitting out there and closing the road down for multiple hours, he can fly the drone 20 minutes, have the entire crash scene mapped out, and then they input it. He's been called out with us and he's obviously since he's trained up in all the programming DPS requesting quite a bit. Their drones about an hour and a half, two hours away. Uh also used for city events, crime scenes. Um does have the thermal vision on it at night time. So the eight fleeing suspects he was called out on which the drone was able to assist in catching four of them and then
022for NISD doing some of their flights. But he logged 80 hours of flight time last year. Uh Diego is our K9 who's will be retiring this year. Um 80 years old, so he's at the very at extreme retirement age. Um when we hired Officer Drake, who was then promoted a sergeant, now recently lieutenant. He brought uh his K9 Diego with him. Just this last year because of his promotions. Uh it's a lot to do being a sergeant, being a supervisor, and also having a K9. It does not work out right. So he uh when Diego did come to work uh a couple times been called out he had six deployments and every time he did get some type of felony arrest out of it. >> So what happened to that dog man? >> He's still
023here. We haven't retired him yet. >> I'm but when you do retire >> he goes with the officer. He would so that the Diego originally uh when Lieutenant Drake was with Brans County, that's when he uh received Diego and there they wrote him to remain with Lieutenant Drake. And then when we hired Lieutenant Drake two years ago, he he was able to bring Diego with him over here with us. We started the program, so he's going to remain with him when he retires. Our school resource officer program, we do have four positions. uh currently just have the three full-time. We cover the high school, junior high school, web, and Bruley, all the schools in the city limits. Uh last year, next one. These are the amount of calls they do have just at the school.
024So, service that includes everything. Um not just uh criminal type stuff. It could be a car parked out there, medical, anything like that. But the officers do have besides just being present, speaking with the kids, interacting, they do handle calls for service and offense reports. Most offense reports uh and the older schools are more uh for vapes, THC vapes and so forth. This last year we did promotions. Uh Corporal Hu was promoted to sergeant. Officer B was promoted to corporal and over the patrol shifts and the lieutenant Drake. And then technology. We've been working on technology for the last three years trying to upgrade everything. Um MDTs inside the patrol units. That way they can get a lot more uh information. Sent over there to dispatch consoles from the 1984 and 85 consoles. We upgraded
025those to some 25 2025 models touchscreen. Uh we can now communicate with all agencies. our radio antennas were iffy and we were able to update uh those thanks to the city manager's advice on that stuff. Um watch guard camera systems. Our camera systems are 15 years old. Um and the Panasonic is expiring out. They pretty much gone out. So the WatchGuard systems a new cloud system. It works uh with our body cameras and everything else. It's just a really good system now. So, we're slowly as we as we can uh changing all those out. You'll know the city camera systems, we have those up and working really good. Uh helps dispatch quite quite a bit. Uh license plate reader cameras. That one I don't think I ran all the data on that to show how
026much um many stolen vehicles and other alerts that they have assisted on the data pilot program as we got the grant for that this past year. We have been able to use it a couple times to get several of our uh child porn cases, not only for us, but many other agencies have now reached out to us to assist them. Electronic ticket rides. I explained how useful those will be in the grappler bumper system so we can prevent some uh issues and in pursuits. >> Chief, could you go back please on the city cameras at the railroad crossings? Uh when someone call for a fire truck, is it they call a fire station or do they call police department for what? >> For fire. >> Oh, they they go through dispatch. >> Okay. So when
027ditch call out the fire trucks, do they tell them which railroad crossing is being busy in one? >> Yes, they can. Yes. cuz I just witnessed here maybe Robert I think I visited with you about it but about two weeks ago Sunday night it was a fire department coming out went towards 379 but when they got to the railroad track train was coming so they had a hard time turning around and had to come back here on railroad street instead of wire till the train come >> that's that was a goal we just put another TV in there so they can be live the whole time and it's as the dispatcher is taking the calls or whatever call it is as long as they look looking up and can check it out. They they can
028see live what is on each. We have the crossing at uh South Law, the main one on Washington Avenue, and then the black shirt one, the three major one is where our camera faces. and you know the patches that we did this year trying to get some uh community involvement as we uh transition through you know different holidays and and reasons why the officers can wear the patches which they did a lot of interaction with citizens and our animal control service we do have two positions there we currently have one open which we have somebody in background um it should just be completed in background may be offering position next PE if over 549 calls for service last year. 184 animals were intake. We chopped it up to 88 dogs, 32 puppies, and down to
029a guinea pig. And then we had a peacock and goat and everything else. Um out of that 29 adoptions, uh we this is a no kill shelter, but we do have to euthanize every once in a while. Two were sick and one was extremely aggressive. Um nine returned to owner. 137 of them had to be transferred to another shelter to be adopted out. And then we did start the uh release program which five cats were released and then you add the extra one that was born in the shelter. So our facility has 14 external kennels, six quarantine kennels, and then we have five portable ones we can bring in and out and then the 10 interior cats. So when we take in that many animals um and that's that's what we have available. So we
030are full quite often. Um I know on the next slide we'll talk about we are going to be updoing it. Uh donations this past year we did the true blue organization just recently for this last one but prior to that uh we also received a check from a guitar raffle from the birthday bash last year and the donation of that first graffle bumper system from Frank Stowing. And these are a couple of the grants that we applied for which we were awarded. um text dot the same things for the crashes and that uh does the overtime for the officers to um get out there and lower the that the body worn cameras upgrading to the Motorola ones the cameras through the uh that grants through the state of Texas as well as the uh body
031armor and the shields. NRA grant helps out with the training ammunition for continuous training and then the MVCPA grants for the uh license plate reader cameras. These are some of the events police department host every year. Treats on the Streets brings several thousand. Operation Blue Santa um did over 135 kids through NISD elementary kids give uh gifts to National Night Out. We worked on the uh Memorial Highway Sign fundraisers and then uh typicop and we donated the money last year to the NISTD's special Olympics as well as the state special Olympics. We divided that in half which we plan on doing another one this next month. And then besides all the local uh events that we go to and y'all know last year also uh we lost officer Sergeant Mark Butler. So we did retire
032his badge. Uh this April we do have the state law enforcement memorial in Austin. And then we have the National Memorial uh dedication to the wall in May. The Highway 6 signs being paid for after the funds we raised. uh they will let us know when the signs are built and when they're going to uh present those. And then we also came up with that uh MPD memorial patch. And then these are kind of our goals for 2026. The Lexipole goal we talked about the digitizing all the PD documents and our policies. The animal control office adoption room which we're working on that um have the plans drawn out for that. uh as well. When we do that, we're going to replace the external and internal kennels, which are probably 25ish years old. Um as
033we get the funds, we'll continue replacing the incar camera system, so they're all on the same system, easier to upload. And then just pretty much all technology constantly. uh our evidence room. We're now going to set up a new route with district clerk and county clerk's office to get the dispositions of each case so we can have a destruction orders to clear out our evidence room. We have a little over 11,000 pieces of evidence in the evidence room. Uh working on the a new animal control design logo patch that they have a like a uniform they can wear. Uh doing a lot more or less lethal training which goes along with the grappler bumper system and spikes. Part of that um donation was for the grapple bumper system which also one of our officers was
034trained to use it. But not only was that they gave him an extra day of training. Now he's an instructor so other agencies you can train internally and externally as more agencies get the system. Um, and we're working with the Lexipole system allows us to do more online training for free and we're always focusing on getting the officers trained up then they can upgrade their certification uh just besides years of service and then our drone program. That's pretty much all for last year. All right. Thank you, sir. Item five, conduct a workshop discussion on chapter 10, subdivision regulations related to parkland dedication requirements, fee methodology, and associated matters. Luke, are you going to introduce >> Mayor Council? Good evening. Lucid Osado, development services director. I just wanted to introduce Mr. Paul Howard. He's with Berdet
035uh Consulting. Uh or yeah, I believe that's the company. >> Close enough. Close enough. uh he is going as a part of the parks and uh wreck master plan uh that the city is undertaking now. Uh one of those line items was updating our current parkland dedication ordinance. This is the rules and regulations that um dictate what green space or parks and new development coming into the city are required to construct as well as fees that are applicable in those projects. And so um Mr. Mr. Howard put together a really good summary and presentation of what their professional recommendation is on those fees uh and kind of the inner I guess background data on how they get to those numbers. So, oh, thanks L. >> Good to see you all again. As uh Lupe mentioned,
036this um part of this process is to look at um your existing ordinance and look for opportunities to strengthen its ability to um ensure that there's adequate parkland um as your community continues to grow. the the premise of a parklane dedication ordinance is that u the cost of uh developing new parks as um new people come into your community should be borne by those residents coming in rather than becoming a burden. So um you have a notion called um level of service which is how many park acres of um you have for a certain size population and as your population increases that puts extra demand on your existing parks. And so the parkland dedication ordinance ensures that either land is do dedicated um or um a fee in lie of land is dedicated for the
037development of new parks and we'll also go into u covering the cost of developing those parks as well. So, um, well, I kind of just said all this, but the goal here is to, uh, make sure that the the parkland dedication ordinance is is fair both to, um, the community and to the developers, but um, so that needs to be driven by, um, real data. Uh, not just an arbitrary number. many of the cities in um United States, but all over Texas as well um have just picked round numbers um for their um fees uh and round numbers for their um desired amount of park land. And that's not legally defensible if brought to court and and case law has shown that um many times over developer wins because the city didn't come up with
038a a fair and reasonable um assessment of um either land dedication or fees in lie of um they call that rough proportionality. Oh, did I go the wrong way? >> There it goes. Okay. So, um, as a little bit of a a fornote, um, we base of all the recommendations here in based on Dr. John El Crompton's research that he's done over many years, um, on parkland dedication ordinances in cities within Texas. He's the foremost authority on um, these types of policies. Um, and he's right down the road in College Station. Um he teaches at the university as a professor Mmeridis on u land planning and um and parks and and recreation. Um he's also been on their city council um numerous years as well. And we'll talk a little bit more about college stations
039just because it'll get some perspective about um fee structures. Um so why update the methodology? because property values have increased um significantly over the years and the currency or um ordinance um has a fee for um land dedication that is uh grossly um undervaluing the land. So the fees that you would acquire from those developers would not be sufficient to actually buy parkland. So we want to update that along with u look at a methodology for how to um assess those values. Um and then park development fees need to be um addressed. Many cities don't even have a development fee as an option and then they're left with land that's been dedicated but no way to uh develop that without um significant expense. So um there was a provision in the um in the current
040ordinance for park development fees, but it's based on $50,000 per 3 acres of land. And uh we can show um later on here that that's um grossly insufficient to actually cover the cost of developing parkland as I'm sure you all have seen with the cost of any new improvements to parks these days. Um and again, we want this to be data driven, therefore defensible and um quick. Okay, so your current ordinance um has a level of service requirement based on your um your neighborhood parks. There's only 7.26 26 acres of neighborhood park land per thousand residents in the city. So, um that equates to a a requiring developers to um dedicate one acre for every 48 to 52 dwelling units. That's single family versus multif family. Um and in our proposed uh revision, we want
041to look at all the city parks, not just neighborhood parks. the neighborhood park notion came out of the '7s era of of these ordinances where um the assumption was that um everybody's going to uh just walk down the street to their park in their neighborhood. But the reality that studies have shown is that the vast majority of park users drive to parks and they're using all different kinds of parks in the community, not just the little neighborhood park with a picnic table and a playground. So, um, we want to expand the, um, the study to include, um, all parks in the city, which brings their level of service requirement to 10.71 acres per 10,000 residents, which is significant. Um, and then, uh, we want to treat single family and multif family, uh, dwellings the same.
042And the reason for this is there's no accurate data, um, available from the census anymore on, um, uh, the the population of living in single family versus multif family dwelling units. They quit doing that in this last census and so it leaves it u hard. There's no good metric for uh determining that. So it's better just stick with the single family dwelling unit um model. Okay. Your current land valuation opportunities within the ordinance um require the developer to um provide a sightspecific land appraisal uh certifi by certified land appraiser. um that's still a valid methodology, but it's also cumbersome and um can slow down the process of getting through permitting. And um so and it's not predictable. And so, uh, we proposed using, um, certified tax rule from the Grimes County Appraisal District. And, uh,
043so what we did is we went in with GIS and cookie cuttered out all the parcels within the city limits, ETJ. And, um, then we averaged the total land values, the market value per acre, which came out to $25,236 per acre. um that's um a much more accurate um representation of what the cost per acre is. And um so that will bring um the new fee in lie of um land if if the developer chooses to pay instead of build um and dedicate parks to um $729 per dwelling unit. As I mentioned before, park development fees are also important. Um the ordinance currently has a an example estimate of approximately $50,000 per three acres, which it's just not going to get much on the way of park development. Uh you won't even get a parking
044lot unless it's a very small one. Um so what we did is we looked at all the um opinions of probable cost that we've developed um for cities um across the state and um and then we normalized those to uh current um you know we gave it a cost escalation for um the the inflation of the dollar and we came out with uh 45 um Texas park projects and um the average cost per acre was 494,000 and change per acre. And um and then I did a separate study uh with 20 um built projects from other cities across the state just as a as a a check um to see if if our numbers were reflective. And that came out to uh $514,000 per acre. So we know somewhere around $494 to $514,000 per acre
045is what it cost to develop a park. And that's with a variety of amenities. And we excluded things like sports complexes and recreation centers from that study. So they're not skewing the number one way or the other. Um but that um if you were to take that 35 um dwelling units per acre of parkland um as a requirement, that would mean $14,000 um per dwelling unit being paid by the developer and that that's going to be sticker shock for anybody coming into the community. So um Dr. Crompton recommends um not just not ignoring the fact that that's the real cost, but accepting that this is this is the anchor cost as $494,000 per acre, but then by policy, the city can choose to um discount that and we recommend a 10% discount uh 10% of
046the original amount. So that would come out to $1,411 per dwelling unit as a um developer cost. Some other components of the ordinance are about um implementation and and how this is um treated. So um in the past uh the city's ordinance um suggests um park um zones and and those park zones are uh referred to um the comprehensive plan as the as the source of where those park zones are, but the park zones were never developed. So um effectively um the entire city is the service area which um these uh fees and um and park land would be um dedicated. Now u Dr. Crompton suggests that small communities it's perfectly acceptable not to have park zones because uh park zones can limit your ability to use those funds. If you have a park zone,
047then the the fees that are required have to be expended in that park zone. And um that can take a really long time to build up depending on which zone um the park the the development happened in. Um and because it's such a small size and because most people drive to um the city parks, it it's acceptable to um consider the entire city as one service area. There it goes. Uh, another component of a parkland dedication ordinance is um how to treat flood planes. Um, currently the uh city has a a 2 to1 credit for flood plane land um as a as a land that's being dedicated for parks. Um that's pretty standard and uh we recommend keeping that. Um but capping that um total amount of parkland that can be dedicated as part of
048that requirement at 50% of their total land dedication. So they don't get to give you just all flood plane land. needs to be at least um 50% of that is non- flood plane land in in the the recommended changes. Um and then detention ponds, we're recommending only um allowing detention ponds um still at the same 2:1 ratio, but only if they uh pro provide park amenities as a component of that land dedication. And then private parks, excuse me, um HOA parks um giving up to 50% credit on those as well. Um but they must must meet strict um eligibility and HOA maintenance standards. So um and that's something to consider is uh establishing a stand minimum standard for um for what needs to be included in those parts. Why would we give a uh a
04950% credit to a private park that's uh that someone had a home association? >> Okay. Well, >> they have to take care of it themselves and not the city. >> Those those people that are coming in are using parks if they're that's the increased demand, right? But if they have local parks in their neighborhood, that that's relieving some of that increased demand because they instead of going to the neighborhood park over like Victoria Park, they're going to their new little park in whatever that new neighborhood is. So I mean they they're still using some of the other parks. They're probably still going to go out to August Horse Park or Miller Park or something like that. But um there is u it's it's fair to say that they are me providing um some parkland to
050to reduce the uh the burden on your existing park system. >> Where do the school district parks fit in? >> They don't typically fit in in this type of a policy. Um that I've never seen it anyways. um that would be um kind of like double dipping in a way because the city's not responsible for paying for school district parks. So um that I mean theoretically I guess you could say they are in a way because residents are paying property taxes, but it's not um in the city's budget and so that would be an awkward situation to try to manage those funds. I don't think it would be considered defensible. Um but I haven't seen it um done that way. Only city parks are usually applied. Well, in the plan though, it maybe should be
051just part of the inventory, the community inventory, I guess, just >> so that it's definitely include that. >> Yeah, I think we would definitely include that in the master plan as as amenities available to the community. The reason you don't include it in in this because it would it would unfairly drive this number even higher because it would look like we are providing more acres of developed park space per resident today. And when you try to get that same level of service on a new development, it would drive that that cost factor up or require effectively more park space that we really didn't provide. The school district did through their tax sources pointed out. Yeah. While you kind of while that was brought up just so that it was on the at least on the
052on the planning side. >> Yeah. We we'll definitely include that as part of the overall inventory because it is part of your recreation environment. >> Right. Yeah. And there have been cities um like Robert was talking about there have been cities in the past that I've seen um many times where they like I mentioned before they picked an arbitrary number for their level of service but that arbitrary number was it their actual level of service was 98 people per park and they were asking for 50 people per park. So they wanted to double their land, their park land um on the developer's dime uh which is considered unfair. And so um that's part of that rough proportionality requirement. And so um back to administrative and timing updates. So uh as you know these uh land
053costs and development costs do go up. We recommend um reviewing these every three years or as needed to um to ensure that your your fees structure is up to date. um those fees can be referenced as part of your your master fee schedule rather than coded in the ordinance. So the methodology would go into your revised ordinance and then the fee schedule can be updated without having to change your ordinance every 3 years. And so that that would be our recommendation. And um and then extending the fee expenditure deadline to 10 years so that any fees that are acred um they don't you don't have to refund them if you don't build something with them in five years. So, we recommend extending that deadline to 10 years because it takes a while for these to
054add up, especially if the growth is is slow in the community and just to make sure that that money is getting put to good use. So, um, in summary, the proposed fees, um, the new fee we're recommending is, um, based on this methodology would be, uh, $729 per dwelling unit for, and that applies single family and multif family residents. And, um, and then a park development fee. um that would be $1,411 per dwelling unit um rather than the maximum allowable um fee of 14,000 uh for a total cost of $2140 per dwelling unit. The goal here being to maintain the per current level of service with a defensible data driven methodology. And this is just I just said all this so I'm just going to skip through that. Um, and then I wanted to show
055y'all um what this looks like. Um, some just some projections of growth in your community. You have a an annual 120 development or new dwelling units per year. That's pretty conservative. Um, so it's looking at like an annual growth rate of of 3%. Then u at the $729 per dwelling unit and $1,411 per dwelling unit for development fees. Um here's a 10ear schedule of of fees that would be acred. So, um, year one, you're looking at a total of $256, $800. And by, uh, year 10, uh, year 10, because, you know, 3% growth annually, you're looking at $335,000 in that year for a grand total of 2.9 million over the course of 10 years. It's acquired through these u development fees. So, um some point along the way that that land that money can go
056to use to um to develop parks that um aren't being provided um through land dedication and development by the by the subdivision. From the developer standpoint, they're looking at for a 50-unit project, their total cost because of this ordinance is $107,000. Um now, that's all going to the cost of the home. it's not going out of the developer's pocket in the end. So, um this is just a and this is the way every city does it. U for perspective, the city of College Station's current um uh fee structure is um $1,16 per dwelling unit for single family. And then uh the development fee is $4,100 $4,150 per dwelling unit. So, a grand total for each single family dwelling unit is $5,256. That's what they're charging their developers right now. And u as you can see,
057College Station's not having a problem with new development coming in. So, um I wouldn't worry about scaring off development. Uh it's more about making sure that you're getting um quality development. Um if they don't want to develop parks as a component of that subdivision, then um then the fees, the money is there to actually make the um make it possible for the city to do it. Did you look at any other cities? >> We did. Well, we did through uh Crompton's um most recent uh monograph was had 73 cities in it in Texas and uh has comparison charts of everybody's fees and um and their differences in their methodologies and um and this structure is your your current ordinance had a good structure. just didn't have right fees and there were some minor tweaks here
058and there, but it was overall it was it was developed um in accordance with um the best practices. It just needed some tweaking and some updating. Um but um we we try to compare your fees to theirs as because your fees will be based on your land values and your level of service currently. And so >> I'm I'm hung up on the the old system of riding your bicycle or walking to the parks type thing. If this this is true that that more people are going by car than this increase in the amount that's needed for the parks, is that just reflecting the parking spaces? I'm not adding anything to the actual usable recreational. >> No, the the the increase. Sorry. So going from pedestrian accessible to citywide really just reflects the park zone issue.
059Um you because it otherwise that would trap if you divided the city into four sections for instance then money acquired in this section can only be used to build parks in this area. We saw this in Rosenberg when we were revising their ordinance that they had 11 zones and they had oldtown area was in one zone and there was no new money coming in and then so they weren't getting any new parks but then then over here they could get parks but they they didn't have any more land to you know so they're built out but they and there well they're getting close to built out and they've got all this money acrewed but they can't put it into other zones and so they needed to get rid of those zones to be able to
060spend that money within their 10-year time period. And so that was the goal there. As far as the um the increased um level of service, all we did was to say that it's not just neighborhood parks that people are recreating in. and um Crompton's research uh there's it's 156 pages of to go through but um expresses that um this is standard now is to go for all types of parks not just neighborhood parks because the diverse recreation that people have interest in is isn't just playgrounds anymore. It's not just a picnic in their neighborhood park. They want to play sports. They want to go play pickle ball. They want to go, you know, walk on the trails. There's there's so much recreation out there that limiting it to just neighborhood parks would really be a
061disservice in in terms of meeting the demand of the residents. And so the deliverable that we've got for y'all as a part of this contract was is is a white paper that we've done that details all the methodology in here. And um it will be up to the city to actually um tweak the um the language of the code which is not significant amount of writing necessarily. Um and so we've got it all outlined outlined here in the um the white paper. Um and we're prepared to revise accordingly if necessary. Mayor and Council, the the objective tonight was to kind of give you an opportunity to see the the proposal, the rec or the not proposal, but the recommendation. Um, and if you all uh are in favor of that, we will ask the legal
062counsel to uh to draft an ordinance for your consideration at the next uh council meeting. We intentionally did not want to ask you to take action on this tonight. We wanted you to see it, hear it, and give guidance if there were some things that you wanted adjusted. If you're comfortable with this, then the the staff will ask legal counsel to to prepare the ordinance. Can you explain something, Robert? Uh, with the, uh, process we've got going on right now with the parks and everything, how would this plan affect that? >> The you you're talking about the parks master plan? >> Yes. >> I I don't it I think they they um they really fold into one another. One of the things that even a couple of you have have asked me about over the
063last week since uh the the most recent um public uh opinion workshop and we're getting a lot of feedback from uh the public from either that meeting that we had last week at the Navasota Center or on social media, a lot of support from the public wanting to do these kind of things. But the reality is um that there are limited funding sources and this is one of those uh opportunities for us to have a funding source that allows new development to at least partially fund uh that that those additional projects and those additional needs. Uh because they're bringing increased demand to our our park system, it allows them to help fund the uh the improvements uh that would be made. There might still be debt that gets issued at some point. We might actually
064go to the voters at some point and ask for for debt to to help if if there's significant interest in some of the bigger projects. But we put all of those different things together. There's grant funds, there's potential debt issuance, there's there's these park development fees, there's property taxes that we collect. You know, all of those things come together uh to help us fund the uh the parks for the community. And and this is one that really helps uh as growth comes uh it it helps not be just such a burden on the existing uh residents. It helps them fund at least that initial impact uh on the >> system for new development. Yes. The these fees would only apply to new development. That is correct. >> Did I answer your question, council? >> Yes.
065Okay. Yes. I just wanted to make sure it was going in hand to hand. >> Absolutely. Yes, sir. Certainly. And this was actually a deliverable of that parks master plan uh con contract that we issued to BR. This is this is one of the deliverables uh that that we had given them with that parks master plan. definitely go hand in hand. >> Who who who can opt out of this? And what I mean by that is I think we had folks come to PNZ who would say, "Well, I'm building a development that is right next to a park. I want to I want to not have to pay and not have to do anything because I've got a park that's right across the street." How would this affect that? they would still have to pay
066the full amount even though the they were next door to a park. >> Yes, the demand is still increasing. There's new people coming to town increases the load on your um existing parks whether that's wear and tear on the grass or more trash to pick up or you know what have you more people in the park. Um so even though there that's just that's it wouldn't matter if that park was next to them or on the cross town, they're still increasing the demand on the park system. >> Yeah. So just to kind of add on to that um for for full transparency, one of the things that city c this council and councils everywhere uh when they are in negotiations with developers to do something like a planned unit development, a part of that document
067defines any variations from the city's normal development ordinances. this would become a part of the city's normal development ordinances. And so you all could decide that let's say the the scenario you just gave, you have a developer that's coming in right next to an existing park and they say instead of just paying this, we would like to invest in some improvements to this park that is in close proximity to us. You all can give them credit for that towards this. you that becomes a contract document. That PUD becomes a contractual negotiation that you all can decide, yes, we we feel like your investment accomplishes this and you can give them a partial or even potentially a a full waiver of this uh this fee in in certain scenarios. You'll get to evaluate that with each
068development proposal that comes before you if it is something that they are requesting uh a variation from. I didn't misspeak, did I? >> No, sir. That's right on. Yes, sir. >> All right. >> Thank you guys. There we go. You're on item six, right? >> Yes, sir. >> Okay. Thank you. >> Next workshop discussion on applicable development regulations, including but not limited to chapter 10 subdivision regulations and chapter 14 zoning regulations. Mayor, council, a little bit of background on this uh item. As you all know, we are well underway for our comprehensive plan update. Um, as part of that comp plan update, it's going to include a unified development code, which is kind of like this ordinance that we just talked about and many others, combining those into a single document uh that regulates all
069new development in the city. Um, however, we are also about probably close to a year from final adoption of that document. And so a conversation has come up about what ordinance elements uh that are currently uh in effect today that we would like to change in the interim between now and having that um one big beautiful uh unified development code probably or something to that effect. Um so um anyway so we here here in front of you in in your packet you have a list of development standards um that have been discussed or brought up at some point in the last year or so. uh maybe some a little longer just to say these are some things that when we do update our code again, we want to talk about. One of the things as
070Robert mentioned earlier is this uh parks and recreation codes or parkland dedication requirements. That is one of the ones that we'll probably want to update before uh we get to that year mark uh from now. And so that's the one that's in bold in your in your packet. Um, and so the question tonight is, is there any other um any other specific code that we would want to look at um to update before we adopt the UVC? On number seven, it says clarify pavement and raised curb requirements. Is ra What is raised curb mean? I mean, is that a regular curve or is that what the developer is currently using where people can drive over it and not cause problems? I think there's a distinguishing between what a curb I mean so I don't know
071what a race curb is but >> yeah that's that's essentially like if you go to a parking lot usually on the on the perimeter of the parking lots you'll have a a curb where you can't run over the grass um our code is kind of gray in that area there's so there's been some projects where they don't do a curb it's just concrete ends and then you have landscaping and some others most of them have been a raised six-inch curb to stop your wheel from going into saw or landscaping. >> Just thinking about Stone Ridge, that curb is not I would not consider that raised, but I would not consider it concrete and end is like a 4 inch. >> Yeah, that is a lay down curb. That's it's actually meant to be driven over,
072right? Because you're going to connect all the driveways. >> I'm wondering if we should clarify what curb we are talking about when we say a raised curb requirement. What is that? Is that a real curb or is that a >> Yeah, it's a real It's a real curb. In this scenario, it's a real curb. So, we can make sure to clarify that if we if we decide to amend that specific ordinance. >> That came up a lot when we're talking about the size of the roads and neighborhoods and the developer would prefer to put in a curb that you could roll over so that you didn't have he didn't have to make the road bigger so that the car could actually go in the grass versus having to make the road larger for vehicles to
073fit. So, I think it's important to distinguish those. Yeah, >> because curbs are, you know, they're also have to do with flood control. I mean, they're they're meant to be to turn into a waterway whenever they >> water as a barrier. >> Yeah. So, just as as we consider which of these items we might want to do, ju just to kind of put it in reference, we anticipate that all of these and many other things will be included as we start talking about a unified development code. We know we're about probably a year out from really getting heavy into those discussions cuz the comp plan will finish up and the UDC is a deliverable as a part of that um resilient communities uh program grant uh that the comp plan is being developed as a
074part of. Um it the reality is to piece meal it together or to do certain things is not necessarily the most efficient way. The most efficient thing is wait do the UDC and address all of them. But we have had some some correspondence with some of you all that some of these things you might not want to wait on. So, if there are things here that you all perceive as urgent and we should bring them to you now as opposed to waiting until the UDC addresses all of them um collectively then then that's kind of what we were hoping to get tonight is some guidance on hey we think numbers 47 and 12 are really important. I didn't look at what those are. I was just using numbers as examples. I Me personally would like
075to see one and two worst over or now. I've been waiting three years on something for that. >> Well, I would think if they've made it to your list that they should be I mean they're probably important enough to let's move on. Um I don't know how difficult it will be to piece mill it together, but if you're talking mid 2027 if we stay on track. Um and this is some of these have been on the table for a long time. >> No doubt. And and and when we if if we want to address all of them, we certainly can. it it will probably mean instead of starting at 4:30, we're starting every council meeting at 4 or three uh to to have workshop discussions because these are going to be lengthy discussions. And so
076again, it's just an inefficient way to to move it when we know we've got a comprehensive UDC coming uh in the relatively near future. But again, whatever you all feel like are our priorities, we will bring to you and we'll start scheduling for workshop discussions. Well, some of these would be P&Z, wouldn't I? I mean, like one and two would be from P&Z which can review it, do it, present, and then recommendation presented to council. We wouldn't need a workshop necessarily. >> Well, I think that these have come from P&Z. I mean, a lot of these are things that they have brought up. Yeah. are that have been brought up today. Well again I think they all need to be included and to what extent I mean there some of them are very simple that
077can be addressed you know without >> a whole lot of discussion you know >> I don't know how we would have a workshop on an emergency mergency drive-thru adjacent to the primary lane. I mean, that seems pretty fairly easy. That's the Connie ordinance. >> My 4in rollover all drive. >> So, could you go back to PNZ and see if I >> adjust them? Me. you I mean you want these to be prioritized or what I guess I'm maybe confused on what you're want >> yeah our our goal was we we know that all of these items will be included and and again and others will be included when we do a unified development code yeah >> as a part of a grant-f funded project the the the grant funding is providing that udc development completely.
078It's 100% grant, but we've been told that some of these things need to go now. They don't need they can't wait until the UDC is developed. And and the PNC absolutely will be a part of those discussions. That that process goes through them. It develops the UDC. It comes to you all for adoption. Um, and I it's again if if we're going to try to do it now in in peacemeal fashion and then still include it in the UDC. Anything we do now, we're funding. You know, any any legal work, any anything that's doing isn't a part of the grant that will come as a as later. And so we were just looking for some guidance as to are there a few of these that you feel like are urgent and need to happen now
079or are you okay with these things being addressed when we get into the UDC? >> Is number 16 being done now? Right now it's being done through development agreements with develop we we are including that in our negotiations with developers um because it's not a current requirement in our development ordinances. So we're doing it contractually in the near term. Are we making the assumption that all these will be approved? No, we're saying all of these would be all of these would be addressed and discussed as a part of the UDC process. Yes, sir. >> So, can you kind of enlighten us on which one that need to be approved now? I I think the one that we talked about right before this item that parks uh parkland dedication because we can get the the parkland
080dedication uh fees uh included now. I I think that one makes sense to do to do now. >> The rest in my opinion the rest of them will come naturally when the UDC happens. But if you all feel like they're a priority and you want to see them now, that's again why we why we had tonight's discussion. >> You said one and two. >> Well, like one and two. For instance, >> I've been a firm believer if an ordinance states something that is currently and it's not being enforced, then why is it on there? And part of that is is I do have a second dwelling, but I am not allowed to let anybody live in it. And there's several that Well, we don't enforce it. And if we're not enforcing it, why is it
081on the books? I say either clear it or update it or do something. And this has been going on for years. I mean, but that that's just I just noticed that. But I mean, I've talked to Lucille about this for three years and now it's going to be four years if it is approved. But it's something that could go through TNZ. Um, Robert, I would say that whatever's pressing that need to be done now, let's move forward. I think the like you said the the code I mean the uh >> parkland >> the parkland and then the rest can I am interested in number three number 10 11 15 and 17 3 10 11 15 and 17 I don't know that there's any reason to wait for I mean that's that's really a life or
082death kind of thing uh and we now have a new business that just opened up that fortunately agreed uh to follow what we had requested but uh I would assume that we will have more coming in so >> all the developments coming >> what were the ones in 11 >> 15 and 17 >> 15 17 >> and 17 would be for similar reason and number 15 because I think it's a new idea and we have lots of development coming in. They probably need to be see that. I'd be good with that. Well, I would said just go ahead on add one and two to it too then. Okay. >> Any other >> got a little direction there? >> We got it. Yes, sir. I've got them down. >> All right. Thanks. I hope so. Item
083seven, conduct a workshop discussion and presentation regarding the Altameir public improvement district and a proposed pit development agreement for the Altamera development. Sir, mayor and council, I'm going to give Lupe a second to get this one brought up and shared with the audience, the online audience, I guess that is All right. And I'll try to run through this relatively quick, mayor and counsel, but um just just like we did at the last meeting, we uh because this is a new process um again kind of taking uh some requests from you all and from from residents that you maybe don't have the familiarity with um TUR andor PID um projects because they're relatively new to this community. So, we do have a our first PID uh agreement on tonight's uh agenda and so we thought we
084would do a quick little um public improvement districts uh 101 or basic uh background course. So, um it's a PID much like a TUR. It it's it is a tool that a community can use to to help fund uh public infrastructure. Um the um PID uses a little bit different. It uses a a an assessment as opposed to a tax rate like you hear with a MUD, a municipal utility district that sets its own tax rate. Um or a TUR uses a part of the governing body's uh committed tax rate. Uh in a PID, it is done through a an assessment. So it operates similarly to a tax comes with the tax bill but it is technically uh it is not a tax uh it is a an assessment on the property. Um it does
085allow for the funding of infrastructure much like a like we talked about with the tur eligible projects that get identified uh in the advance uh in in advance of the development taking place. uh those projects generally get built by the developer uh funded upfront by the developer and then the pit assessments pay them back uh over the c course of time. So it's it and there you see um in plain language kind of a description of um that it's it's a city created district u much like many other things it's a special assessment on that property uh in that area to to pay for the public improvements uh and the services that benefit that property. Um it is assessment not a property tax. We already said that uh separate charge tied to the to the
086benefit that is being derived uh by the investments. Um they're typically build at the same time as the tax bill. Um but it's not a tax increment and it's not an HOA uh homeowners association assessment. Uh it is something completely separate. The the legal authority comes from the the local government code uh there. And so the process uh that you all have been following for uh a number of months is you had a petition, you had a public hearing, you had findings and you established the a public improvement district. Um the next uh steps would be for um the developer to install the um the public improvements, the infrastructure uh to allow the the homes to be built or whatever the the property is going to be. Uh you will in the near future adopt
087a service and assessment plan or SAP um which will um be used along with the uh the annual assessments. it will become the the uh the rolls that that go out and those get placed on their tax bills as homes are delivered uh in that uh in that district. So uh again there it's not for citywide benefit things. These are for specific infrastructure projects that benefit that uh that development. So your the the interior roads, the interior uh infrastructure uh underground infrastructure and those kind of things. They find um commonly that you've got the list of projects, what I just said, water, wastewater, drainage, storm water, uh roadway, sidewalks, street lights, all of those types of things, parks, trails, open space, uh amenities uh in the common areas. um and limited engineering, administration, and financing
088costs uh where where they're defined. So, the items that you've already done, you received a landowner petition, particularly when we're talking about Altameira development, the one that's on tonight's agenda, you had a public hearing even before I was hired. You you you conducted that. you had your findings resolution and you adopted uh a resolution that created a public improvement district for these purposes. So tonight is that development agreement um and following and the financing how that gets laid out uh the financing in this case it is much like we're doing with the TUR. It's what's referred to as a cash flow PID meaning they don't intend to issue debt against those assessments. They they intend for as the assessments come in each year, whatever cash is available will be used to reimburse eligible projects to
089the developer. Um and then so you will have in in the coming uh relatively short order, we'll see a service and assessment plan that'll come from our pit administrator. Um and then that will get rolled into uh the annual assessments uh that go out. So, we're getting getting closer to the uh to the finish line, if you will. Um the typically the assessment is set per lot. Um or by the value, by square footage, different things. Hybrid, this this I believe is uh um predominantly per lot. Um there might be a little bit of a hybrid approach for commercial areas uh which would not be uncommon. Um the it would be build annually on the tax bill. Uh there there is some interest built in um if there's going to be eligible funding or or
090available funding uh to fund interest on on outlay capital outlay that the developer had. Um and it does allow for prepayment. So meaning a home owner once they buy their home, they will know upfront what their pit assessment is for the course of 20 years or whatever the time frame is. they could choose to pay that off early and not have that annual assessment come on their tax bill. Most do not, but they can and there's no prepayment penalty. They they save the interest uh in that case um and and can pay that off uh early at their option. So, uh just like we talked about last time in the in the TUR, good governance expectations, we've got clear disclosure required to the buyers at closing. These will all be filed uh with uh with
091the lots so that those disclosures will be made. Uh the assessments are tied to a specific benefit, the the infrastructure that's being installed. Uh there is a transparent eligible cost list uh and reimbursement rules so that we know upfront what projects are going to be funded by uh this public improvement district. That's what the the tonight's agreement spells out. uh and the the um pit administrator will uh produce annual reports to us letting us know uh what the um developer projects are that are awaiting reimbursement, how much we're able to reimburse in any given year and how much is outstanding to um uh to be reimbursed. City council retains the ultimate authority. There's not it's not like a mud where there's another governing body. You all um create the PID, adopt the findings, the SER
092service and assessment plan uh and the uh assessment roles. You set the expectations based on the agreement that you're approving. Um and you all are the ones that approve those contracts, that development agreement, uh and the service and assessment plan. Your PIT administrator works for you. They will prepare the service and assessment plan uh and the assessment roles for your approval. uh they will coordinate the billing and collection with the county tax assessor and they will maintain all of those records for us. The the benefits uh as you all are aware but just for everyone that this allows for new infrastructure to be delivered earlier than if we were waiting for it to to just come naturally and the city to be able to save up money uh to invest in this. uh it allows
093the growth to be supported uh without shifting all costs citywide or shifting that burden onto your current uh taxpayers and your current residents. Uh you've got that defined scope and budget. It's already in it'll be in the adopted plan and it it can align with your broader utility and capital planning uh needs. And so, uh, the things that we will be watching out for as we go through this process, uh, the affordability for the homeowners, we want to make sure that the pit assessment that's going to go on top of their tax rate doesn't end up be becoming something that limits u home buyers and it also doesn't isn't something that um that makes us um not competitive in the marketplace. And so those are the kind of things that we're looking at making sure
094that that we're not loading everything up uh in the PID. That's one of the benefits of having a PID tur combination which this is. So not all of the infrastructure projects are being funded out of the PID. A portion of it you all have already committed to the TUR uh tax increment. 50% of that tax rate is going to go towards some of the projects. So again, that alleviates some of the burden off of them and it allows that uh to to be a more balanced approach. Um keeping operation and maintenance and and capital cost transparent. It's all part of that service and assessment plan. Um and uh you could have dissolution if you all chose at some point to dissolve it and take on the b the uh the the responsibility for making the
095developer reimbursements. you could uh if there were some articulable reason. I don't know of one off the top of my head, but you have that authority if um if necessary. So, you did have uh we we discussed this um at the December 9th uh council meeting. Um I think it was actually 2025 though. I think that might be a typo. Is that correct, Lupe? >> No, 24. >> It was 24. This is >> Oh, I'm sorry. Okay. We did also discuss some some part of this development in 2025. But anyway, so back in December of 2024, just as a reminder, this Altamera subdivision, proposed subdivision is a little over 96 acres. It's going to be somewhere around 383 residential lots. Um the uh life of the PID, uh the the assessments over the life of
096the PID are just under $13 million. The improvements would include water, wastewater, gas, storm, uh sewer, detention, paving, common areas, amenities, administration, and interest. The planning assumptions is for a 20-year term, uh on a 4.5% interest, the principal per lot would be about $17,000, which gets divided by that uh that 20 years, and you get somewhere around $1,500, I think, um uh per per year uh in assessments. Um and so that was again that that was all summarized in uh December of 2024. You adopted uh findings uh a resolution that that had findings for the the the necess necessity of the improvements, the advisability of it, the boundaries, uh the method that would be used. You also adopted a separate resolution um that created the public improvement district, the Altamera public improvement district uh and
097directed the preparation of the service and assessment plan. And so that is the uh route we are going and uh and so it gets recorded as a part of the deed. As I was saying earlier, you have to make sure that we get notice to the home buyers so that it's not a hidden cost uh surprise. We we file that with the real property records uh so that those disclosures get made. Um and so then the development agreement, what is on tonight's agenda is kind of where it all boils down all the actual nuts and bolts of this agreement and how this is going to work. So it talks about what those public improvement projects are, the standards uh that they will have to be built to the doc how the um costs are documented,
098what the reimbursement structure uh is. As I was saying, this is a cash flow or pay as you go uh uh PID uh what those timing triggers are uh for completion milestones and additional phases. what that methodology is uh for the assessments uh what disclosure language has to be used all of this is in the uh the development agreement and what the dispute resolution is. So what's already available online uh just like with our TUR we have this posted uh already our city council agenda packet from 2024 the the minutes uh which were approved in January of 2025 um that changed the zoning to a public uh a a planned unit development or HUD uh earlier annexation agenda materials in May of 2023 you annexed the land uh and in July of 2025 the pit
099administrator was was hired to oversee this and any other public improvement districts that you all create. So that's it. I'm a minute late. Any questions? >> So if if someone buys a home out there >> Yes, sir. >> and just say this the uh then $1,500 is added on on their tax bill. >> Yes, sir. >> Uh I'm going say after 20 years it disappears. >> It does. Yes, sir. Or if they were to choose to pay it off early. flat rate in it. >> It is a flat. It is. Yes. It doesn't go up if their tax rate goes up. If if their property value goes up, it it is a set amount. They will know what that amount is for the for the life of the assessment >> and they can pay it
100off anytime >> and they could pay it off early. >> No penalty. >> Correct. No penalties. The PID and the TUR both are methods of paying for the improvements that were done early. Where does the money come from initially? The developer. >> The developer. What's the city's exposure on this? This the the the city's exposure is very limited. I I'm going to defer to Carrie, but in my my the way I've always heard it by by most legal counsel and and and and pit attorneys is that the the city in this case, there's no intention of issuing debt. Even if we were issuing debt, it would be against those assessments and not on the city's t it would not be secured by the city's tax rate. Um but Carrie, do you want to add any
101color to that? >> That's accurate. I think unless you're going to issue debt which this is uh that's not anticipated in this situation um they are they would be revenue bonds based upon the you know the assessments that were being paid in by the u the property owners. So the the uh the exposure is very limited. >> The debts of the developers and it's not the not the ped and it's not the city. >> The well if if the if the city issues the debt um then it's then it's the city's debt but they're it's secured by the revenues from the assessment rather than the general taxing authority of the city. >> But we're not issuing the debt. >> Correct. That's right. That's just That's right. >> Yeah. Okay. All right. We'll adjourn the special
102meeting.