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DRAFT • <br />I] <br />implement the Project Plan and Reinvestment Zone Financing Plan. In <br />general, the City may consider the following project costs as eligible, but is <br />neither obligated nor limited to the following: <br />a. Off -site utilities required to bring utilities to the Zone (e.g. water, <br />waste water, road and drainage facilities, street lighting and traffic <br />lights); <br />b. Upgrade existing infrastructure to provide additional capacity for <br />future development of properties within the Zone (e.g. lift stations, <br />water and waste water improvements, turning lanes/intersection <br />improvements, waste water treatment plant enhancements); <br />C. Land purchase for public facilities and construction of projects that <br />serve the general public such as overpasses, interchanges <br />roadway beautification, convention centers, amphitheaters, <br />marinas, park improvements, etc. <br />d. Oversizing of infrastructure within the Zone, including water, waste <br />water, streets (arterial or greater) drainage (major channels and <br />detention basins) and street lighting. <br />e. Specialty items such as signage, streetscape/landscape <br />improvements and including the construction of sound barriers, <br />buffering landscape between residential and nonresidential uses, <br />and common recreation areas shall be considered on a case by <br />case basis. <br />f. In general, the City will not consider as eligible costs the public <br />infrastructure or land acquisition costs for individual developments <br />within the TIRZ boundaries that serve only that development. <br />g. Exceptions to the policy on eligible costs will be considered on a <br />case by case basis <br />2. The City may retain funds as provide in Chapter 311.002 of the Tax Code <br />to be reimbursed for the following: <br />a. administrative costs attributed to others, plus reasonable charges <br />for the time spent by employees of the City in connection with the <br />implementation of the Project Plan and Reinvestment Zone <br />Financing Plan; <br />b. the amount of any contribution made by the City from general <br />revenue for the implementation of the project plan; and <br />C. payments made at the discretion of the governing body of the City <br />that the City finds necessary or convenient to the creation of the <br />7 Revised 5/12/99 <br />