New taxes coming for those who live around Texas 130 Toll Road
AMERICAN-STATESMAN STAFF
Thursday, March 08, 2007
Article Excerts:
Watson plans to file three bills Friday. The most ambitious would allow Austin to create a special district around the toll road (Texas 130) where it could impose its development rules and collect sales and property taxes to pay for roads, streets and utility improvements in the district without being required to provide city services for years.
Watson is also proposing that counties along Texas 130 be granted zoning authority and the ability to levy impact fees and that cities near the toll road be allowed limited-purpose annexations regardless of their size.
The bill has the support of Rep. Mike Krusee, R-Williamson County, who said he supports the idea of creating a special district because otherwise it will be impossible for Austin to keep up with the infrastructure that is needed to plan for growth around the toll road.Krusee said he knows of no other transportation service districts in the state but also knows of no other case in which so much road has been built in so little time.
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