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Originally Posted by Villages Kahuna
If the county can’t raise impact fees on further Developer-proposed commercial and residential expansion to the south, then without increased property taxes, there would be no way Sumter County could build the roads and infrastructure necessary for the proposed new development.
If the Developer decides not to pay for the roads to service his development as he has in the past, then it follows that the pace of development to the south will slow, maybe dramatically.
So how much will that effect residents who live 10-15 miles north of the new planned expansion of The Villages? That would include me and the answer is not much at all. In fact, if further construction to the south stopped immediately, that might be a ‘positive’ result on our community which many of us think has gotten way too big, way too fast.
What do you think?
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The issue with stopping growth is you will create a significant level of unemployment to thousands and thousands of people who work for the developer or people and companies that support the developer. This will impact the entire county because of revenue shortfalls leading to raised property taxes not to mention the suffering of families of the unemployed.
I wish people would read Don Wileys comments about impact fees and watch his videos. He has done the research and can explain how it works. Basically, if you raise impact fees Sumter county will lose some of our gas tax revenue generated by the thousands and thousands of vehicles that drive the turnpike and 75 and stop for gas in our county. Don can explain it much better, but it isn’t as simple as raising impact fees and getting that amount back in a property tax reduction. Don commented about this a few weeks ago in another of the endless posts about impact fees.