Transportation infrastructure funding is limited. Couple funding limitations with rapid growth in development and inflation, cities need to be creative and stretch transportation dollars as much as possible.
Private development is a critical partner in developing future growth infrastructure. Being able to leverage private development to build transportation infrastructure typically result in this critical need being implemented faster.
There are several mechanism for transportation funding. However this presentation will focus on Impact Fees and Rough Proportionality. It will give the basics of What are Impact Fees, What are the components, How are they calculated, and How are the implemented. It will use Fort Worth as a case study for Impact Fees. Fort Worth City Council adopted a transportation impact fee ordinance May 13, 2008. The ordinance went into effect July 1, 2008. Since then the program has been updated in 2013, 2017 and is currently being updating in 2022.
In addition, the session will look at transportation mitigation criteria for development and how that can be required as a condition of approval. How can mitigation be outlined so it is predictable and transparent to development? How can a city ensure these requirements are fair to the development's impact? The City of Fort Worth's Rough Proportionality Policy, and updated Transportation Engineering Manual will be presented as a supplement or alternative to fee collections.
Jeff Whitacre
Jeff is a Vice-President and has 18 years of project experience with mobility planning for cities. Jeff’s passion is to move game-changing transportation projects from a creative vision to reality. Jeff is unique in that he is extremely talented at both developing innovative plans, and then leading their design and …
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Jeff is a Vice-President and has 18 years of project experience with mobility planning for cities. Jeff’s passion is to move game-changing transportation projects from a creative vision to reality. Jeff is unique in that he is extremely talented at both developing innovative plans, and then leading their design and implementation. He focuses on creating alignments that consider natural, man-made, and fiscal constraints. His goal is to connect communities through mobility investments. These investments include developing “right-sized” transportation plans and prioritizing transportation projects to allow the biggest impact for the dollars spent that fit into the community fabric. He has developed multi-modal transportation plans for over 20 cities in Texas and developed Capital Improvement Plans for over 40 communities.
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Armond Bryant
Armond Bryant is a Senior Planner in the Transportation Development Review department at the City of Fort Worth, Texas. As a Senior Planner, he reviews traffic impact analysis, calculates proposed developments roughly proportionality impact on the transportation system, and works with engineers, developers, and city officials to find equitable solutions …
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Armond Bryant is a Senior Planner in the Transportation Development Review department at the City of Fort Worth, Texas. As a Senior Planner, he reviews traffic impact analysis, calculates proposed developments roughly proportionality impact on the transportation system, and works with engineers, developers, and city officials to find equitable solutions to transportation infrastructure challenges. Armond has a master’s degree in urban and regional planning, a geospatial information technology certificate from Virginia Tech and has worked on federal grant administration, project management, and public works capital improvement projects.
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Miriam Spencer
Mirian Spencer Morrison, AICP, CNU-A, serves as the Transportation Impact Fee Coordinator with the City of Fort Worth’s Development Services Department. She has 12 years of government transportation planning experience working in a city and has an eye for long-term strategic transportation planning. Her passions outside of transportation focuses on …
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Mirian Spencer Morrison, AICP, CNU-A, serves as the Transportation Impact Fee Coordinator with the City of Fort Worth’s Development Services Department. She has 12 years of government transportation planning experience working in a city and has an eye for long-term strategic transportation planning. Her passions outside of transportation focuses on being an avid fan of college and professional football, as well as a super slow 5-10K runner. Mirian has her master’s degree in public administration from The University of Texas at El Paso and her undergraduate degree in Criminal Justice from Texas Christian University.
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