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Originally Posted by triflex
I read that article too. I came from a County on the Coast in FL with impact fees raised for sewer.
Think of it like this: You own a Yugo (old poor Sumter County) and you decide to buy a Ferrari (new Sumter County that isn't a poverty palace). Then the County decides to charge you 150% in impact fees for buying the Ferrari. You decide not to buy the Ferrari. Now you and the County have nothing but what was already there. You have to PAY the impact fee before you even GET that car. However if the impact fee isn't there then improvements can be taxed or paid over time (like the Bond we pay which is basically a loan we got without even having to qualify for it) .
In my old County (Brevard) I was in a new house on sewer. Other new houses literally next door were being built and required an impact fee for sewer. All of the new houses sought an exemption and requested to put in septic tanks or they wouldn't build. The County, instead of granting an impact fee waiver, allowed septic tanks two doors down from the sewer system. Not one new house in area was added to the sewer system in the three years I was there - all of them installed septic systems. Why? Impact fees were between $20k & $35k and homeowners and builders refused to build without the septic tank being waived in.
Local governments become filled with people who just want to get to retirement and get a pension. From my experience, you start seeing a lot of fat guys in County pickup trucks who cannot wait for lunch to roll around. Nothing of substance gets done.
The Developer is WAAAAAAY better than what seems to be shaping up on the Sumter County Commissioners Board or other counties.
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Welcome to TOTY. We got high bonds and a big property tax hike. It was about the developer and the prior commissioners raising property taxes to pay for the roads in the developers new project South of 44.