I am not missing any point. The Developer will not pay. Any additional costs will be passed through to the buyers. By the way, I don’t have a problem with that. Did you work for the Federal or a state government?
Stop with the disenfranchised voter rhetoric. If someone wanted to vote in the primary they could have by changing their affiliation.
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Originally Posted by Advogado
No, we cannot agree on that. I think you are completely missing the point.
The issue here is a policy one: Does the Developer (through a reasonable impact fee) or do the current residents (through a 25% tax hike) pay for county infrastructure costs necessitated by the Developer's massive expansion of The Villages?
That question was resoundingly answered by the voters this year by roughly a two to one margin when they elected to EMS Team (despite the Developer's massive spending and perhaps illegal use of fake candidates to disenfranchise voters). The decision was: THE DEVELOPER, NOT US, MUST PAY! You need to understand that that is no longer open for discussion; only the details need to be worked out.
As explained by an earlier poster, the exact numbers will have to be determined by an impact study, but the Developer, not us, the current residents, MUST pay for the Developer's infrastructure. How much of that cost the Developer can pass on to new home buyers and commercial renters will be determined by market forces and shouldn't really matter to current residents.
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