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Originally Posted by tophcfa
The Daily Sun articles appears to have been successful in misleading some that the new commissioners are proposing a tax increase. What the are proposing is a reallocation of how the impact costs associated with new development are paid for.
Another way to put it is that they are not looking to raise additional revenue for the county, instead they are looking to have the cost of new development paid for by the parties that are responsible for the development and stand to benefit the most from it.
There is clearly a tipping point, somewhere between the current sweetheart impact fees and raising them to what is considered full impact fees, where raising the fees too high would be detrimental to all parties involved. If the commissioners hire a respected professional who specializes in this kind of analysis, who is truly independent of the developer, I would fully support going with their recommendation. Under the prior commission, a truly independent study was never done, resulting in the current sweetheart impact fees being highly subsidized by the 25% property tax increase.
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I believe the advisors hired by this bunch of commissioners are also not in favor of raising the impact fees......which is one of the reasons they delayed.