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Originally Posted by Advogado

Why would the Commissioners wait until 2020 to increase the impact fee? That should have been done instead of increasing taxes once it became clear that a massive infrastructure expansion was necessary. The impact fee was not increased at that time, and property taxes were, for the reasons outlined in my original post.

LOL You are the poster who claimed that impact fees are to be reviewed every 5 years...thus 2020! The impact fee was not raised when Fenny, et.al. were announced and neither were S.C. taxes! But life is different now and something else should have been done *because* a tax increase was implemented? lololol

If the County maintained that 'rainy day' fund for unanticipated issues it would have that funding to fall back on in order to avoid such a serious tax increase. You claimed it is not raining - I claim that S.C. is suffering from a torrential downpour! Even my little town up north maintains that 'rainy day' fund with a small percentage of its annual tax revenue to be used to cover $$ associated with properties on which owners fail to pay their taxes or for other community issues which would place a burden on the taxpayers!

Why did no one complain when taxes were not increased for so many years? Was everyone enjoying riding the gravy train? So now the train is back in the depot and the piper needs to be paid for maintenance work that needs to be done and in preparation for the next gravy train run!

The S.C millage rate is still the lowest of all 3 Villages Counties - is it not?