Hereby called this regularly notice meeting of CPAC into session first June 18th, 2025.

Okay, we've got the minutes.

Yeah.

All right, the copy of the minutes of our June 4th CPAC, which is Capital Improvements Program and Advisory Committee, which we serve as well as this committee.

But I've got a copy of the minutes.

And do I have a motion to approve in a second?

Yes, I do.

Winkles and Commissioner Winkles to has moved.

And Commissioner Blake as seconded.

Please cast your votes.

The motion is passed.

And then two abstentions.

And that's all we have to do.

Ah we've approved the amendments.

Now we do the uh we want to uh go through the CPAC resolution and CPAC resolution that no changes are needed regarding the land use assumptions, capital improvement plans and impact fees for the 2025 impact fee program update.

Have a staff report.

Thank you, Mr.

Richard McGerson.

Thank you, Mr.

Chairman, members of CPAC, Richard Gertzon, Assistant Director of Planning and Development Services.

For cities that have excuse me, cities that have impact fees, Chapter 395, the local government code requires that the program be updated every five years.

However, there's an alternative that's also in the statute that allows cities to adopt a position of no updates are necessary to the land use assumptions, the capital improvements plans, or the impact fees.

Staff uh comes to you tonight with a resolution asking you to find that it is not necessary at this time to update the land use assumptions, capital improvements plans or impact fees, and therefore find that no updates are necessary at this point to the program.

Several reasons for our recommendation here tonight.

One of the critical elements of an update is land use assumptions.

We're currently in the in the middle of a very important comprehensive plan update, Innovate Arlington, that you uh and others are very, very familiar with.

And that comprehensive plan is going to give us a lot of information in terms of where the citizens and the policymakers of the community want to go in terms of growth in various areas of the city.

So that information will be critical, we believe, to making the best land use assumptions that can be made for purposes of a of a later impact fee study.

So in that sense, right now for us to conduct a study, which we're prepared to do, but for us to do that right now, it's a little bit too speculative in terms of where we're going in terms of growth.

So that's one reason.

A second is because we are well uh in progress on a new form-based code pilot project that covers the downtown area as well as the surrounding neighborhoods.

The recommendations that are likely to come from that form-based code are going to include some provisions having to do with density changes.

In some areas of the form-based code, it's going to be very light touch density, we call it, but nevertheless, an increase in density.

In other areas, it may call for greater residential density.

So those are some factors for a rather large area of the city that also need to be factored into the land use assumptions.

And then finally, the recent legislative session had some important bills that were passed and are sitting on the governor's desk at this time to sign.

One of those is Senate Bill 840, that assuming that the governor signs it would allow multifamily development to take place on commercial office and some lighter industrial properties by right.

Administratively.

Pardon me, which you have before you.

And upon approval, this will be transmitted to the City Council next week.

It's tentatively on the council's agenda for next week.

And if the city council agrees with your recommendation and makes a determination that no changes are needed at this time for land use assumptions and so forth, then we will, as required by law, publish it the requisite number of times, and then the updates for this year will be accomplished.

One good thing I want to point out is that even though one of the bills that I mentioned that it has passed says that you cannot pass new fees or increase existing fees any sooner than every three years, a no updates option doesn't change the existing impact fees, so we would not be hemmed in by that three-year requirement.

So a year from now, a year and a half from now, once the comprehensive plan is complete and we have a better picture on land use assumptions, the city can launch it right into the impact fee study.

Thank you, Mr.

Chairman.

We have any questions.

Do we have any speakers in the audience on this item?

I see none.

Do I have a motion and a second?

Yes, I do.

I have a motion by Commissioner Blake.

And a second by Commissioner Finley, please vote.

Motion passes 7 to 0.

Having no other business, I adjourn this uh capital improvements program and advisory committee meeting.