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Originally Posted by Herbflosdorf
If not via impact fees, how do you propose the county should raise funds to pay for offsite road improvements that are needed to support the additional traffic generated by businesses?
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Very good point.
Florida Impact Fee law requires developers to pay a fair share of infrastructure costs. The study which the commissioners paid $69,000 for set the fee at $2,430. But the puppet commissioners ignored the study and gave the developer a sweetheart deal of only $972 which required residents to pay the rest. Thus the 25% property tax increase. The puppet commissioners were overwhelmingly defeated in the last election.
Now the developer and his minions are trying to scare residents that construction will grind to a halt unless the sweetheart deal is retained, residents pickup the difference in higher property taxes and the developer pocket the extra profit.