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Originally Posted by Velvet
I am glad that people are enjoying the subsidization of their new homes. But I still don’t think that forced charity from older home owners is the best way to go.
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You are right, and the great majority of voters agreed with you in the last election. By overwhelmingly electing the EMS Team as County Commissioners, the voters decided that the costs of the Developer's infrastructure should be borne by the Developer in the form of a reasonable impact fee. This has been decided.
A couple of posters have been naively arguing that the Developer will simply pass along all his increased costs in the form of higher prices for the new houses and wouldn't take a profit hit. They are wrong, but it really doesn't matter. The point is, even if the Developer could do so, it would be irrelevant to the real issue being discussed here. Whether or not the Developer takes a profit hit from imposition of a reasonable impact fee, the CURRENT owners would still not be bearing infrastructure costs that should not be theirs.