Impact Fees Need to be Raised
The county commissioners could pay for all this by raising the impact fees of the developer to what they should be. The Villages Developer pays only 40 percent of the cost of new roads and nothing for other infrastructure like fire, law enforcement.etc. Perhaps they are getting breaks because of the schools they have donated etc?
What is spectacular to me is how all this wasn’t delineated for the public and set forth in the up till midnight meeting. Wasn’t a company supposed to research the proposals? Wasn’t the research report thorough enough? All the commissioners should have voted no. Kudos to those who did. How are we even getting inputs that RV park owners would have paid almost a half million in taxes per year? Does that seem fair and right to anyone?
What really needs to happen is a lined expenditure report submitted by the fire department and a centralized plan for implementing sound funding for the needs of the department.
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Last edited by Normal; 08-25-2023 at 02:16 PM.
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