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Originally Posted by Dond1959
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.
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Dond great post of what the majority of people miss, there are multiple sides to a problem and most things are interconnected to something else. In our world there are few things that are black and white.