LEGISLATIVE BUDGET BOARD
                              Austin, Texas
                                     
                    FISCAL NOTE, 77th Regular Session
  
                              March 23, 2001
  
  
          TO:  Honorable Gary Walker, Chair, House Committee on Land &
               Resource Management
  
        FROM:  John Keel, Director, Legislative Budget Board
  
       IN RE:  HB3422  by Krusee (Relating to agreements between
               municipalities and school districts relating to land
               development standards.), As Introduced
  
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*  No fiscal implication to the State is anticipated.                    *
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Local Government Impact
  
The bill would exempt school districts from complying with municipal land
development standards other than those relating to fire, safety, health,
and building codes or standards included in an agreement between the
district and the municipality. Municipalities would not be prohibited
from providing funds in connection with any work that would bring school
district property into compliance with a land development standard.
Districts would also be exempt from complying with municipal ordinances
or regulations relating to aesthetics, maintaining property values, or
zoning.

The Executive Director of Capital Improvements for the Leander School
District stated that the district would have saved $147,000 had they not
had to comply with city landscaping ordinances for a middle school
recently built by their district. Another middle school scheduled to be
built in the Leander School District will cost an additional $340,000 to
meet municipal land development standards; an addition to the high school
will cost an extra $268,000; and another six schools planned to be
built, under existing statute will cost an additional $1.7 million in
bonds (paid out over the life of the bond, would total $4 million).

School districts could experience a cost savings that would vary by
school district depending on the number and extensiveness of building
projects and the level of municipal ordinances with which they would no
longer have to comply. There would be no fiscal impact on
municipalities.
  
  
Source Agencies:   701   Texas Education Agency
LBB Staff:         JK, CL, DB