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Originally Posted by LuvtheVillages
What changed:
The massive amount of new home construction south of 44 required that many new roads be built and/or upgraded. The impact fees fell far short of what was needed to pay for the roads. So a 25% property tax (millage rate) increase was passed two years ago specifically to pay for the roads.
Current property owners are vigorously objecting to paying additional property taxes to fund the Developers expansion. People feel that the impact fees should be increased instead.
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Or, alternately, after 15 years of budget mis-management via aggressively reducing the local property tax rates (and then bragging about it), they now want to push the needed catch-up investment in county infrastructure onto the unsuspecting new home buyers, who btw, are already paying for their local infrastructure via cdd bonds.