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Old 12-29-2020, 03:17 PM
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Originally Posted by Advogado View Post
That will have to be determined by the results of an impact study.

As another poster earlier explained, the amount of impact fees has to be determined by a calculation of the infrastructure costs imposed on the county by the new construction. That is why the County Commission needs to immediately contract for a study of the cost of non-road infrastructure.

An impact-fee study was done in 2019 with respect only to roads, and then the puppet commissioners only imposed a road impact fee in 40% of the amount justified by the study-- while increasing our taxes by 25%. Thus, it would seem, on the basis of that study, the current ROAD impact fee could immediately be increased by 150%, i.e. up to 100% of the amount shown in the 2019 study.
A Swing and A Miss.


Biker asked, "What would the impact fee have to be increased by to offset the approximately 25% increase ". That has NOTHING to do with the cost of the infrastructure. Nothing. It's simple math. Taxes increased, say, $50,000,000. Divide that by the 3,000 new homes. Boom..........+$15,000 fee increase.


Your math......150% increase time 3,000 new homes = about $4,000,000. A tad short.


Like Biker said, qualitative nonsense.
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