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Originally Posted by Dond1959
The POA is very strategic and is looking 4 steps ahead of everyone else. They also have numerous voices on social media that consistently pound the same message. They got ESM on the board in 2020 and two more candidates in 2022. You have to respect their organization and effort. They got dems elected to the commission in a heavily republican county. Bravo for them.
But why were they really against the IFD? My personal belief is they plan to push, through their supported elected commissioners, a new Fire Impact tax. They will call it a fee, but we all know these fees (taxes) are pushed down to consumers. If the IFD had passed, they wouldn’t have been able to push this new tax. Don’t be surprised to see this proposed in 2023 from one or both of their supported commissioners. The key will be Estep, is he still in POA’s corner or has he decided to become more independent. It will be interesting to see in the next year.
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Orlando has a fire impact fee in place. Many other areas in Florida charge developers a fire impact fee. People make it sound like this is some kind of novel, special tax that people are dreaming up but it is a fee charged in many communities. The reason they charge these fees is to have the developers share in financing all the new fire stations and firemen they need to hire to provide service to all the new homes and buildings these developers are building.