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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?
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See item 4) in post #132 for information on impact fees. This fee is for recurring costs, not what impact fees are used for.
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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?
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There is a study that explains the rate structure. It was presented to the Commissioners and presumably their questions were answered.
The $490,000 charge to the RV park is not believable. That *might* be the combined fee plus property tax but without more information we can`t know.
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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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Detailed budgets can be found on the VCCDD page and the Sumter County page for any who want to look.
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Why do people insist on making claims without looking them up first, do they really think no one will check? Proof by emphatic assertion rarely works.
Confirmation bias is real; I can find any number of articles that say so.
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