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CITY OF ,SAN MARCOS CAPITAL IMPROVEMENTS PLAN 'AND ENGINEERING REPORT A. INTRODUCTION An "Impact Fee" is '.~ charge or assessment imposed by a 'political sub diyi Si()D . for new'deyelopment within its service area in order togenerat~'revenue for-funding or recouping costs of capital improvements necessitated by and attributable- to the new development. The City of San Marcos- ,water service area is all the land within its certificate. of convenience' and necessity (CCN) as established by the Texas Natural Resources and Conservation Commission. The City's wastewater service area is' predominately the City's extra jurisdictional area (ETJ). The water and wastewater service areas are, shown in- Exhibits 1 and 2. ' The first st~pindeterminingan impact fee is topr~pareland use and growth- assumptions for the 'service'area, for ,the.next ten'years. Then a Capital Impro_vements Plan must be created to serve'the anticipated land uses and growth. The. costs that can be considered in the impact fee calculation 'include: 1. The cost of new 'iIlfrastructure paid by the City including engineering, property'- acquisition and constrllction. 2. The -cost of existing-excess capacityin lines and facilities .available to,servefu~~ growth paid for in whole or part by the City. 3. Interest and other finance charges on bonds isslledbytheCityto cover its portion of the cost. These items aresuI11l11_edand tIle anticipated utilized capacity over the lO-year impact fee period-is calculated. The total utilized capital improvement costs are divided by the ,total number of new Service Unit Equivalents (SUE's).' The result is the m'aximum imp,act fee that can be charged' per new SUE. This report is the engineering analysis of the City's water and wastewater Capital Improvements Plan and utilized capacity for the ten-year period- of2002throug~2012,. It is based upon the City's curreptFuture Land Use plan map and the projected population iilcreasesthrough th_e study period.