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Originally Posted by eyc234
"I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve."
The giant wanted to negotiate and it was slapped in the face. Like it or not, it is the way things work and if you do not believe it you are naive. Look at any stadium built for a sports team and you see what happens. Negotiation gets you some of what you want and trying to slap your adversary down can get you an ass whopping. I do not agree or totally disagree with the process but understand the process and how to best work in and around it. Obviously the new guys do not understand or want to get the best for the constituents they are suppose to represent. As many have said, still waiting on the 25% rollback they promised!! No answer to this question every time it is asked.
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I think that my original post answers your question.
As explained in detail in that post and, as was made clear in the last election campaign, the property-tax rollback can only happen if there is a corresponding increase in the Developer's sweetheart impact fee. (The revenue to pay for County infrastructure necessitated by the Developer's massive expansion of The Villages has to come from somewhere.) It now appears that the Developer has been successful in preventing that impact-fee increase from occurring. Ergo, it appears that, because of the Developer's actions and despite the overwhelming vote of Sumter County residents, a property-tax rollback is NOT going to occur-- at least not in the immediate future.
Developer: 1 Current Residents: 0
Remember, every time that you pay your property tax, you are, in essence, writing a check to the Developer in the amount of your tax increase. This is because you are paying for roads and other county infrastructure that he should be paying for via a reasonable impact fee.