City Council - Regular Meeting

Good evening. Time is 6 p.m. We'll call this September 14th, 2026. New Braunfels City Council meeting to order. We'll ask everyone in attendance to please silence or turn off all electronic devices. Ms. Wilkinson, will you please call roll?

Thank you. Council Member Spradley will deliver the invocation followed by the pledges.

Please stand with me. Gracious Heavenly Father, we come before you today with grateful hearts. We thank you for giving us this day and the opportunity to serve the people of New Braunfels. May your Holy Spirit guide our council and every city employee with the responsibilities entrusted to us. As we discuss and set the tax rate and the city budget, grant us the wisdom and discernment to make this heavy decision. Help us balance the needs of our growing city with our responsibility to be good stewards of our taxpayers' money. Give us courage when difficult decisions are necessary, humility to l

So we'll start the night off first with, we got a presentation, a couple of proclamations. We'll start with presentation recognition of Texas Amateur Athletic Federation State Finals Summer Games athletes. Mr. Wilson, Parks Director.

I'm city councilman David Edwards. I'll get it there. You're doing great. Edwards. I'm hard of hearing without my cochlear undeath. So on the I use closed caption. So anyway, if you understand why I don't look at you sometimes, I'm reading and listening at the same time. And sometimes I'm having to reread it to make sure I understood what I think you said.

All right, so proclamation, whereas Deaf Awareness Month is recognized each September as an opportunity to celebrate the contributions of deaf and hard of hearing in our individuals and promote awareness that deaf culture and encourage great understanding and inclusion within our communities. whereas deaf and hard of hearing individuals are valued members of families, workplaces, schools, neighborhoods, civic institutions, contributing their talents, leadership, and service in countless ways. Whereas the City of New Braunfels is home to a vibrant deaf and hard of hearing community, including i

Okay, we have anybody here for Constitution Week? Come on up. All right. the state of Texas, County of Comal, City of New Braunfels, whereas the Constitution of the United States of America, the guardian of our liberties, embodies the principles of limited government and a republic dedicated to rule by law, and whereas September 17th, 2026 marks the 239th anniversary of the framing of the Constitution of the United States of America by the Constitutional Convention, and whereas it is fitting and proper to accord official recognition to this magnificent document and its memorable anniversary, a

All right, we have another proclamation for hunger awareness, I believe it is. Anybody here for that? All right. State of Texas, County of Comal, City of New Braunfels, whereas hunger and poverty are issues of vital concern in the United States, in New Braunfels, and in Texas, where nearly one in five Texans, over six million, struggle with hunger, and of them, one in four are children, and one in seven are seniors, and nearly 50 million Americans face food insecurity and potentially do not know where their next meal will come from. And whereas the New Braunfels Food Bank is committed to takin

All right, at this time, we'll now open it to citizens communications. Our public comment period where our citizens are heard. In the interest of time and structure, this period is specifically for individuals to address the City Council on issues and items of concern that are not listed on this agenda. There will be no City Council action taken at this time. Citizens will be provided with the right to speak on posted agenda items, which we will recognize later when those specific items are called.

All right, seeing no one else, we'll move on to consent agenda. All items listed below are considered to be routine and non-controversial by city council and will be approved by one motion. There will be no separate discussion of these items unless the council member or citizen so request, in which case the item will be removed from the consent agenda and considered as part of the normal order of business. Citizens must be present to pull an item. The items would be item A through H, as well as the individual items of item I, approval of the first reading of an ordinance allowing the Construct

F and H. F and H. Does council wish to pull any additional items from consent?

Okay, so I'll entertain a motion on the items excluding F and H, and then we'll take up those two items individually.

I move to approve the consent agenda minus F and H, which will be moved to the regular session.

I'm sorry. Ms. Wilkinson, will you please call roll?

Motion carries. We'll now take up item F, approval of a... contract modification with River North Transit LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Via Transportation Incorporated for transit services to the New Braunfels Urban Transit District.

Any questions from council? Who pulled, was it Mr. Warmke that pulled it out?

Thank you. Any questions, comments from council?

All those in favor, raise your right hand. Motion carries. We will now take up item H. Ms. Wilkinson, who pulled this one? Mr. Warmke also, okay. Approval of a recommendation by the New Braunfels Economic Development Corporation approving an annual administrative professional and asset management services contract not to exceed $455,386 with the city of New Braunfels for FY2027. Any comment or discussion from council? Mr. Warmke, if you'd like to.

Seeing no one else, any other comments or discussion from council?

All those in favor, raise your right hand. All those opposed? Motion carries. Moving on to individual items for consideration. Discuss and consider the first reading of an ordinance amending Chapter 130, Article IV, Division VII of the Code of Ordinances of the City of New Braunfels, revising drought stage designations and triggers, and clarifying other provisions resolving other matters incident and related thereto, repealing all ordinances in conflict containing a savings clause and declaring an effective date. Mr. Kelso.

So essentially the information and the resolution is still, everything's exactly the same. It's just that the actual numbers that were in the document did not reflect what we discussed and what we passed.

And I appreciate you doing that. I know it's never tough to, it's never easy to admit these things and have to come back up here and do this again too. But as you said, we are all human. So I appreciate that. All right, we'll open this item up to public comment. Seeing no one, any discussion or comment from council?

Motion carries. Moving on to item B. Discuss and consider approval of a resolution recommending that the New Braunfels Utility Board of Directors exempt capital impact and recovery fees per the MBU impact fee waiver policy in an amount of up to $500,000 for the park at Dogwood, a qualified affordable housing project in the city of New Braunfels. Mr. Jewell.

So just to be clear, this property is already zoned for apartments. So it can either be at market or affordable housing.

So we're waiving impact fees through MBU, 500,000.

Is this something that we could take back to the EDC to cover those costs as opposed to waiving the fees? Because we waive fees, we still have the taxpayers then take that burden. Is that something that we could take back and ask the EDC maybe to cover those instead of waiving those fees?

I struggle with waiving, after we raise our MBU rates, then waiving fees. That kind of gives me the ick. So if there's an alternate method of covering those fees, because we're still gonna have to offset the infrastructure, the roadways, the sewage, all that stuff that's gonna go with development is still gonna be paid for. So if there is a way of taking it back to EDC and having that covered through that avenue, I would be more, this is in District 6, that's why I'm addressing this. That's why I'd be more inclined to be supportive of it going that avenue than just waiving the fees. Okay, than

Thank you for the presentation. Looking at the application itself on exhibit B with the Department of Housing from the state of Texas, this was, I guess, approved July 25th of 2024. And according to what I read, it expired November the 1st of 2024. Can you talk to that?

And when was the last time this was brought in front of city council, this item?

No, I think this came to council two or three weeks ago. Oh. And we pushed it back, right? Did they have the letter at that time or is that why they pushed it back?

Yeah, so- the developer didn't even show up that day, correct? And so without that letter of extension, right, to me that would make sense not to show up that day. And then the only thing in my packet is this information that is not even valid. I have no information that it's valid from the state of Texas at all. In no way would I send it to MBU Board for approval if I don't have the proper paperwork myself. We do need housing as this, but not like this. If you're asking for a half a million dollars, I think you should have all your ducks in a line. That's just me. I don't know how my other co

Does NBU sit with this set aside of a half a man? Is that a line item inside their budget that they keep in there as a reoccurring pool?

Once we get the paperwork issued online and so on, I think we're hearing methods of how to fund this to support it. We understand the need for this product because most tenants are being required to meet a criteria of three times revenue. In other words, if it's a $1,100 a month, they got to make $3,300 a month to qualify for it. This adjusts that so they're not as burdened in their percentage. Really, we want in housing 20% to 25%, 28%. of their income for housing. And so a lot of people in that 20 to 45,000 range can't afford it. And this is the only way to do it to where we're not building

One more follow-up question. Has the city already waived the park impact fees or the roadway impact fees?

I just wanna make a couple of comments before I open this up to public comment. I think this is a good project, I like the project, and I wanna see it move forward. I think it has value, and all communities should make an effort to move these types of projects forward in some way, shape, or form. So I have no issue or concerns with the project itself. To Councilmember Shaw's point, I do have a concern with the impact fees. I think she brought up a very good valid point that not long ago we did raise rates. I was a part of that. I voted for it because I believed in it, still believe in it. It w

I just wanted to say that I agree with Council Member Shaw that we should look at the EDC. I think this is a great project also. We need projects like this to help those who cannot afford and we need more housing to help those who cannot afford their housing. So thank you, Shaw.

All right, we'll open it up to public comment at this time.

Seeing no one else up here, we'll open it back up for discussion on the dais. Council Membership.

All right. First of all, I want to clear up a few things. A, a Linden is not low income. It's an 80% product and a percentage of it. It's moderate. And when you talk 80% of the AMI being on the 70, we're talking someone that's making in the 50,000 range. So that's some of your school teachers. That's some of the people that work for us. When we start to talk about low income, Yes, there's a variety of it, but this project and projects like this are a hand up, not a hand out. They make them pay a percentage of their income so that they can support and move forward. It's not a permanent subsidy.

I agree with you. And my question to Mr. Jewell is, How many of these type of apartments do we have here in this town?

Okay, the other question is how many apartments do we have in New Braunfels that accept the vouchers?

But it's not all in one area. It's all spread out through town, correct?

If there's no more discussion, I'd like to make a motion.

Before we move on to that motion, I just want to say that there was a couple things that I heard that I want to speak out against that just kind of... I can't keep quiet on it. I heard some things like because somebody is considered low income that... they won't be home with their children. Teens will be roaming the neighborhood. The area will go downhill. I reject the premise that because somebody doesn't make the same money I make or the same money that Deputy City Manager Matney makes or Mr. Henson or Ryan Kelso, that they're less of a parent or that they will, run down the neighborhood or

Okay. Thank you. I'd like to make a motion that we disapprove this item as is with guidance to staff to look at the EDC and any other budgetary avenues to fund this program.

Can I ask for a quick clarification? Is that up to $500,000 or is it $500,000 or what?

I will leave that on the staff because I'm not sure what their boundaries are. If 500,000 is all that they can, I'll leave that on staff to come back with the best way forward with that.

Okay, so just, I'm gonna repeat back and just clarify the motion. So the motion is to deny, as stated tonight, with the direction to staff to take this to the EDC and or any other avenues to close this funding gap and bring it back to us for approval.

So we had a motion by Council Member Shaw, a second by Council Member Lebowski. All those in favor, raise your right hand. Motion carries. All right, we'll move on to item B. I'm sorry, item C, I believe we're on item C. public hearing and presentation of the impact fee financial audit as required by Chapter 395 of the Texas Local Government Code. Ms. Viatrick.

The impact fees, does that primarily come from development? Yes. It's not the citizens paying, this is all through development?

And then do the areas correlate with the districts? You say District 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6. Is that the districts as well? Does that correlate?

It is also the maximum allowed by Texas state law, correct?

So it's the maximum we can charge the developer to help their part to build roadways.

Anybody else? All right, thank you both. Appreciate it.

All right, moving on to item D. Discuss and consider approval of the second and final.

So we have to open it up for public comment. Yes, sir. We'll open this item to public comment. I apologize.

Seeing no one else, we'll move on to item D. Discuss and consider approval of the second and final reading of an ordinance adopting the FY2027 operating budget and plan of municipal services. Mr. Werner.

Thank you, Mr. Warner. If you don't mind, can you just go over again the reason why we're at the no new revenue rate, but yet we're raising the rate? Can you try to explain that in layman's terms?

But also we adopted a tax rate lower than that last year.

So to dispel some of the stuff that's going out in the public, number one, We are seeing a lowering in the values of the homes and commercial. More and more people are fighting it using outside companies. And so we're seeing a dynamic impact across the board. So the reductions that we've seen in prior years wasn't us taking a reduction in the tax rate. because we were trying to reduce it. We were just stabilizing it because the values were going up, so the reductions were put in place. Is that not true?

And the next thing is, this budget was hard fought between all of us here. We had proposals to take the rate up higher to get more things done because we definitely have shortages in some of our areas. The police department is having to put in a five-year plan for officers and so on to get things done. And even though we did get additional things for them, In order to get where we're going, we would have had to take the rate up higher to the public. And currently, the Attorney General's office is making a very dim view of any city going above the no new revenue rate and has really gone after a

All right, we'll open this up for public comment.

I make a motion, budget adoption. I move to approve the second and final reading of the ordinance number 2026-50, adopting the FY2027 operating budget and plan of municipal services including the budget order.

We have a motion by Councilmember Edwards with a second by Councilmember Lebowski. Ms. Wilkinson, will you please call roll?

Motion carries. Moving on to item E, discuss and consider a resolution of the City of New Braunfels ratifying the increase in revenue generated by the 2026 property tax rate included in the FY2027 annual budget.

Any questions, comments? We'll open this up to public comment. Seeing none.

Motion for ratification of the tax resolution, individual item E. I move to approve resolution number two, 2026R71, ratifying the property tax revenue increase reflected in the fiscal year 2027 operating budget and plan of municipal services.

We have a motion by Councilmember Edwards with a second by Councilmember Spradley. All those in favor, raise your right hand. Motion carries. Move on to item F. discuss and consider approval of the second reading of an ordinance adopting the 2026 ad valorem tax rates.

I'm just gonna ask you to restate the cost for the average homeowner.

Any other questions or comments before we open it up? We'll open this up to public comment. Seeing no one.

Mayor Pro Tem Capizzi, I move to approve ordinance number 2026-51, levying a property tax of .415613 per $100 of assessed taxable valuation comprised of .193921 cents for debt service and .221692 cents for operations and maintenance. I'll second.

We have a motion by Council Member Spradley with a second by Council Member Shaw. Ms. Wilkins, will we please call roll?

Motion carries. Move on to item G. Discuss and consider the first reading of an ordinance to amend section 126-346 and section 126-369 of the Code of Ordinances of the City of New Braunfels to establish prohibited parking and loading zones on Zip Road, Climb Meadows, and Legend Pond. Mr. Ford.

Thank you very much for the presentation, sir. So I'm just curious, what is the SRO's responsibility? And we have a SRO at this high school? Right. Okay, and I know we have rovers that go from place to place, but what is their responsibilities as far as it goes to traffic

But they don't do traffic enforcement during the normal...

Thank you for getting ahead of this. I think if I recall correctly, meetings passed, we've been going back and adding these kinds of things to projects and neighborhoods and kind of doing retrospect. So I really appreciate, as a city, we get ahead of this. So it's being put in place as we're building. So we don't have to retro react. So I really appreciate you being proactive. Thank you.

I think it's a good plan put together. I think we have some issues that we need to address in our policy and ordinances. School districts more and more are having a direct impact on our roadways and so on. Comal Independent with Highway 46, Oak Run, Veramendi, where we're getting backups. When we calculate parking and the need for traffic, We have to look at what is anticipated as the number of parents waiting in line to take their students. We've got, you know, as... The pollution issue moves toward us out of San Antonio. Idling vehicles that sit there long term, this is all a contributing fa

Yes, and thank you for your presentation. And yes, he took the words right out of my mouth on the schools and parent pickup. I do my grandma duty every day from 3.30 to 4.30. And I go from Oak Run, Carl Schurz, to Kenyon High School. And at Oak Run, you have cars waiting from Oak Run all the way to Randolph Brooks. The worst one is Kenyon High School, both 1102 and the access road of 35. The access road of 35, it goes all the way to, no, it's past Home Depot, that hamburger place, P. Terry's. Yes. And parents are picking up kids at the Buffalo Wing Place. And I mean, it's, I'm surprised there'

On her coattails, you live over there somewhere, right? You mind telling us what you've seen? Have you seen that?

I can't wait. Yes, it is in my district. I'll tell you another area that it's, Settlers Crossing, where the middle school's at, is another one that's very congested when it's pickup time. Cars are outstaged on the roads too, so to kind of piggyback on what the other council members have been saying without using a lot of words, I do support making sure that we're doing exactly what you said we're doing, is working with the school districts to get in front of this and have something codified where we, you know, there's a plan that, they have to think this through, develop it a little bit more t

Okay, and so you said on the temporary parking restrictions, did we install signs also for those temporary parking restrictions already?

Okay, and if you would take a look at that, the middle school over there by Settlers Crossing, that's a,

For sure. Thank you, good job. Thank you. Thank you, Carly. Council Member Carter, did you have something you wanted to say? All right, we'll open this up to public comment. Seeing no one.

I believe this is a show of hands. All those in favor, raise your right hand. All right, motion carries. That takes us to item, well, I had a request for a 10-minute recess, if everybody's okay with that. We'll take a quick 10-minute recess. So we'll be back at 9.05. Getting back to order.

Mayor Pro Tem Capizzi, if you don't mind, I would like us to consider moving item J for the next item because the MBU staff's been sitting here the whole entire time. There's no need to keep them waiting.

Council, does anybody have any objection to moving item J up?

Mr. Kelso, are you ready to go? All right. So we'll move on to item J. and then we'll come back to H and I. So discuss and consider a resolution authorizing acquisition by use of the power of eminent domain of a 0.7402 acre permanent utility easement out of the AM, as is our survey, abstract 98, Comel County, Texas, being all of lot eight, block four, resubdivision of Villa Rio, According to the flat of record in volume 129, page 312 of the deed records of Comal County, Texas, located at 470 Rio Drive, New Braunfels, Texas, 78130, assigned Comal appraisal district property ID 67480, owned by t

So for clarification, just for the public's knowledge, when you do eminent domain for this project, they'll still have access to that land. You're just gonna refine the structure that's there and upgrade that sewage lift, correct?

I live right over there, so I can attest to the smell.

Can you go back to that slide for the process, just for the public's awareness? We approved this today. That doesn't mean it's automatically complete. It still has to go through the judicial phase.

Okay, I just wanna make it really clear, because eminent domain is a very scary thing to a lot of people. It's approved and you're just gonna have your land taken away from you with no voice. I just wanna make it clear that there's still this process and the landowner will still have that chance to have their voice heard through that judicial phase.

Okay, I just want to make that clear for the public because it's a scary term. So thank you for clearing that up. Thank you.

Yeah, I mean, we've exercised all due diligence up to this date. You know, it starts with negotiation. It goes back and forth. When that doesn't work, then you take it to the hearing between the commissioners. If they don't like it after the commissioners' hearing and don't agree with what the settlement issued, then that can go to the final process with the judicial side. So, I mean, we've been very diligent all the way down to get this accomplished. So there's been a protection of personal property rights at the same time. We're not being held up to try to get us to overpay for something and

My only question is, is when you start the process and you start working in that area, will you be notifying the neighborhood and the neighbors that, you know, that, you will be working in that area and will you work with them on traffic and stuff?

Yep, thank you for the presentation. Do you mind going to the slide where it shows the neighborhood? Oh. I guess where the smells are coming from.

So the eminent domain's not taking the entire yellow block, correct?

But it's not gonna be fenced off or anything like that. And so my other question is, when y'all start the construction, what time of the year do y'all anticipate that to happen? The winter would be the best because I'm pretty sure the residents there would be during the summer, right? So. And you work with her to schedule or work that out between them? It's yours? It's her district, and you can smell it?

Yeah, it's across the river, right? My other question is not only the timing of the year, but also the timing of the day, because a lot of people complain about night work.

Wow. Remind me... Remind me, when we looked at it before, that really we're kind of cleaning the lines up and the layout of the utilities, where before we were really cutting across in another location, right? I mean, there was some realignment involved in this. Isn't that correct?

Yeah, so this is kind of a cleanup too. And then after it's done, they still have the use of the surface except for the restricted area.

So it's not a complete taking. It's just us getting to where we need to be with some restricted covenants on what they can do on the surface. That's correct.

So that's a year and a half. Will y'all be working with the residents in that area, especially with river access? Because that's a long time.

I think it would be thoughtful if we push the project back at least until the beginning of the school year rather than the middle of summer. That's just my thought. I don't live there, but if I did, I'd want access to the river during the summer for sure. But if you push it back till, when does school start? Someone that has. August. August, yeah. August, just a thought.

Yeah. Okay. Thanks. Yeah. I think if you pushed it towards the beginning of the school year, it would really work because you're talking about nine months that you mentioned that you would be working hard on that one. And that's during school time. And that would go all the way through either February or March. And you mentioned, you would not have the neighborhood as mad at you.

Shutdowns and service interruptions that you gotta consider and whatnot, right? Yes, yes. And with, I mean, with an 18-month project, kind of doesn't really matter where you started at. At some point, you're going to be interrupting somebody's play time somewhere along the line.

We got to get past the eminent domain part of it first though, right?

All right, any other questions or comments on council? All right, we'll open this up to public comment. Seeing no one, we'll entertain a motion.

I'll make a motion to approve. I'll second it.

I believe this is a show of hands, Ms. Wilkinson. All those in favor, raise your right hand. Motion carries. Thank you.

We'll go back to item H. Presentation and discussion of phase one of the curb management study. Mr. Ford.

Mr. Ford, thank you very much for the presentation. I think this is going in the right direction. But recently there's been a lot of discussion concerns about parking buses. And our current ordinance says no bus parking whatsoever. So if we're going through this, how do we remove that ordinance?

So the ordinance by this virtue would be superseded?

Okay, and also I'd like to mention that if we're gonna move forward with temporary bus parking or large vehicle parking of whatever the source is, that it shouldn't be free, right? And it shouldn't be, how much does it cost to park a day downtown? $10? Maximum of $10. Yeah, a bus should not be paying $10.

I think we need to assess the value of that. And I have an idea for the free parking. So you go downtown and you scan the sign to say, hey, I'm gonna park here, and you put in your information. If there was some kind of a notification on that system that says, would you like to park for free? And then it gives you a direction to go somewhere for free, maybe, right? Because right now there is no, I mean, I know where to park for free, but if someone's just visiting, they probably don't know where to park for free. Just a thought. I don't know if we can do that.

And then lastly would be the ADA parking. I know we're, is this gonna be encompassed in this as also?

My concern on the bus, now I do have concerns on the bus parking downtown because of the fact that as we speak now, I believe they're changing parking downtown to diagonal in one side of San Antonio. Am I correct on that?

Fabulous, okay, that was a concern. I was like, oh my gosh. Yeah, same thing. But also with him, with Spradley, I do agree that we should not be charging $10 for buses for the event parking. And I believe it also should be a limited time, like not, not once a month, like I think it should be like maybe once every two months or once quarterly, but because of the fact that we've got more than one business that has bands that play downtown. And if we had every business that had a bus parking downtown, there would be no parking for our residents or our guests.

Yes. Thank you. Good presentation. Thank you. Thank you.

In other cities, they don't make accommodations for those buses in their parking system. They have to go off-site or they have to go to private lot. They drop off their vans or crews. Now, in some cases, hotels, we will have... bus parking because of either tour bus or whatever. And a lot of times we're located near a civic center or bar. But I can tell you there's a lot of cities that don't make accommodations for entertainment buses.

But there are cities that do. But there are cities that do. There are cities that do and there are cities in between. Right. He already mentioned that there are cities that's already been through this process. And I've been to cities where tour bus is parked right outside a venue. Awesome.

Yeah, you know, they have a unloading zone and then they go two, three blocks to put the bus where they are. I mean, a lot of tours have been done.

A lot of cities also do have blood donor buses that do park downtown and breast awareness, you know, to check your breast for breast cancer. But, I mean, I just, you know, I know that they park downtown also.

Yeah. One of the things that's been a critical issue is trash collection. It's twofold, it's not just whether or not we use centralized, which would be the preference per block or per area, but that means acquisition of an area to do and a way to get transportation. But I think we have to look at the LDO or some where as we begin to redo downtown or older structures, We may have to look more like big cities, New York, Chicago, whatever, where if I take one of the buildings downtown and I renovate it, I have to look at making an indention or a setback or something inside that building to contai

Well, it goes along with what we talked about using central parking areas. You know, in Savannah and in Charleston, they cannibalized the backs of the businesses, like the ones on Seguin to Comel. And so the property owners would give us the property, and then we would install the parking lot and the lighting, which helped their business because they had direct parking, but it helped the off-streets. while the trash could be put in there because it was under our control. But here we don't have that agreement. One of the problems to get in lease is getting a landowner to grease the leases space

All right, anything else? Open this for public comment. I will open this for public comment. All right, seeing no one. All right, thank you, Gary. Then we'll move on to item I. discuss and consider approval of a contract modification with Kimley Horn and Associates for phase two of the curb management study.

That's it. Any comments from Council Member Shaw?

I'm going to assume the $140,000 was factored into this current budget that we've already been talking about.

Any other comments or questions from council? We'll open this up to public comment. Seeing no one.

All those in favor, raise your right hand. Motion carries. And we will now move to 3A, Presentations. Presentation and Discussion on the City of New Braunfels Roadway Impact Fee Study, Land Use Assumptions and Impact Fee Capital Improvement Plan. Ms. Faust and Mr. Kelly.

I just have one question. I think we might all be thinking the same thing. Why is this not aligned with city council districts?

Might be interesting to look at what these costs would be if it was aligned with city council districts. I don't know, just a thought.

Are mostly based off like land area, is that true? Primarily based off of land area? Yeah, we look at often- Whereas I think council districts are based off of population. Right. So they would never truly align then, is that pretty true?

It probably would never align, I mean, truthfully, with that six-mile area you're talking about and then with the population requirements for these districts.

Good explanation. And we're a political district, and this is a geographical district. Our districts can be changed, but for the purpose of the impact fee, you want that area to be stable. So we can be realigned, which we've done a couple of times in the last 20 years.

There's actually nothing that aligns with City Council District. Police, fire, nothing. Anyway, thank you.

So just for clarification, this is for moving forward, right? Like for future projects within those districts?

In those first couple slides you showed, like the areas that were not developed in each district, that's what you're talking about, that land? Those first few slides had like the color schematics, like the red areas were undeveloped.

All right, any other questions or comments from council? Do we need to open this to public comment?

All right, thank you, appreciate it. All right, Ms. Wilkinson, is there any further business to be brought before this council this evening?