Northlake 635(6)-CS 960301
The City With A Beautiful Future
P.O. Box 478
Coppell, Texas 75019
March 1, 1996
Bruce R. Heller, Vice President
Fults Companies
300 Crescent Court
12th Floor
Dallas, Texas 75201
Re: Albany Project (Veralite)
Dear Mr. Heller:
P.O. Box 478
Coppell, Texas 75019
214.462-0022
This letter is written in response to your letter of January 30th, 1996 in which you requested the
time requirements for obtaining a building permit on the referenced lot to avoid having to pay
the Roadway Impact Fees. Based on State law, there is a one year period for not collecting the
Roadway Impact Fee if a valid permit is issued within that one year. However, that one year
pertains only to the first year after the initial adoption of the Roadway Impact Fee. In this case,
we adopted the Roadway Impact Fee on January 20th, 1995 and the one year expired on January
20th, 1996.
You may recall at that time that the City passed Ordinance 96735, which offered clarification
on the Roadway Impact Fee. Section 17-1-09 B 3 concerns plat approvals or applications for
plat approvals that were filed with the City prior to January 20, 1996. The plat for your project
falls in that category. The referenced section states that the Impact Fees shall be the lesser of
the amount that would have been paid in escrow or the Roadway Impact Fees as set forth in
Schedule 2. In this case, the escrow will be zero. Also, because the one year expired on
January 20th, 1996 the Roadway Impact Fee /escrow will remain at zero regardless of when
the permit is pulled for this development i.e., the one year time frame no longer has a bearing
on this development.
If you should have any question please feel free to contact me at your convenience.
Sincerely,
Kenneth M. Griffin, P.E.
Assistant City Manager/City Engineer
cc: Jim Witt, City Manager