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Originally Posted by tophcfa
I am having a hard time buying that. The commissioners had plenty of people point out to them that the impact fees should not be forced on existing taxpayers. Valuable information they obviously choose to completely ignore. Being naive is no excuse for a civil servant. For such an important decision, they could have easily justified hiring a consultant knowledgeable in such matters to properly educate them before voting.
I find it much more believable that they were told how to vote by those who they answered to, who are not the typical county taxpayers. That again begs the question, why did the ones who told the commissioners how to vote, not instruct them to explore issuing a Special Revenue Bond?
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Not selling, just responding.
Not saying it's an excuse, maybe a reality.
But I believe the way it all shook out cost The Villages money. Even if the Impact Fee was tripled, it would not have cost The Villages a dime. $2k or $5k more in the new home prices would not have impacted The Villages.
But the 25% increase was very costly to The Villages.
Not sure the conspiracy theories of The Villages dictated the vote holds water.
