Evaluation of costs to process and manage utility and driveway permits.

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• Creators:
  Quiroga, Cesar ; Sharma, Sushant ; Meyland, Mary
• Corporate Creators:
  Texas A&M Transportation Institute
• Corporate Contributors:
  United States. Federal Highway Administration
• Subject/TRT Terms:
  • Permits
  • Fees
  • Costs
  • Access control (Transportation)
  • Driveways
  • Public utilities
  • Feasibility analysis
• Publication/ Report Number:
  FHWA/TX-14/0-6756-1
• Resource Type:
  Tech Report
• Geographical Coverage:
  Texas
• Corporate Publisher:
  Texas. Dept. of Transportation. Research and Technology Implementation Office
• Abstract:
  Reviewing and processing utility and driveway permits at the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) ; requires a considerable amount of involvement and coordination by TxDOT personnel, both at the district ; and division levels. Currently, TxDOT absorbs the entire cost to review, process, and archive utility and ; driveway permits, regardless of type of permit application, proposed project scale, or required TxDOT ; resources involved. The purpose of the research was to evaluate the time and costs to process various types ; of utility and driveway permits, evaluate potential fee alternatives, determine the feasibility of transferring ; permitting responsibilities to local jurisdictions, and develop recommendations for access management ; compliance. To estimate the costs, the researchers conducted extensive interviews with TxDOT districts and ; divisions to characterize the permitting process and collected permit data from multiple sources. The cost ; estimation included direct labor, equipment, information technology, and office cost categories, as well as ; some costs associated with coordination activities that are directly relevant to the permitting function. Data ; availability enabled a differentiation between simple and complex utility permits as well as a differentiation ; between residential and nonresidential driveway permits. With this information, the researchers examined ; potential fee alternatives to cover permit administrative costs. Based on feedback from districts and ; divisions, the researchers concluded that transferring utility permits to local jurisdictions was not feasible ; given the current utility permitting structure at TxDOT. However, transferring driveway permitting to local ; jurisdictions is feasible under certain conditions. The researchers conducted four regional stakeholder ; workshops to discuss and fine-tune the research findings and recommendations.
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• Format:
  PDF
• Funding:
  Project 0-6756
• Download URL:
  https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/28341/dot_28341_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 5.00 MB]
• Collection(s):
  US Transportation Collection
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:e11e0cad3041e834e11c3505a43ace99cd00f06562a8b1743d00964dd03be0f5