What are impact fees??
 

There is an article in today's paper about impact taxes going up 150%. I have never heard the term before but I did some research and they appear to be an assessment for infrastructure.

Southern residents voice concerns about tax increase | In Today's Daily Sun | The Villages Daily Sun | thevillagesdailysun.com

Are they the same as the bond? According to the following article, the impact fee for a 1,400–1,999-square-foot home in Palm Beach County is $12,469.43

How impact fees work in Florida and what changes under the new law | Palm Beach Roofing Press

However, I also read that a law that was passed this summer limits impact fees. As of June 4, 2021, jurisdictions can only increase impact fees once every four years in the following manner: Increases between 25 to 50 percent must be spread over four years, while smaller increases would be implemented in two equal installments.

If that is the case, how can Sumter be increasing them by up to 150%??

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What are impact fees??

Well, they are NOT something that requires the same post in triplicate

Oops, now it's quadruplicate:1rotfl::1rotfl::1rotfl:

Go to the top of this page, click on SEARCH, enter Impcat fees and read lots of previous posts.

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Think you meant demerits.

Interesting. Will have to wait for the BOCC minutes to be posted to see if this is a new proposal or if the paper is regurgitating old information that has already been OBE.

Nothing is new. Everyone wants but have creative ideas why someone, anyone but them should pay. It has always been and always will be so.

Impcats are running free on the streets. They're small but don't feed them as they multiply quickly.

I’ll give you two answers. They are fees necessary to pay for infrastructure that is required because of new development. They are fees that create great divide regarding who should rightfully be required to pay them.

I believe this article was published in the Daily Sun in 2020, not 2021 as noted at the top of the article. It absolutely doesn't appear in the printed versions of the DS on Dec 16 or 17.

Seems the Sun has started pushing candidates for the Sumter County Board. This Billardello guy has trying to get his name out there, but he appears to be the developer's guy in the story.

Here we go…….:popcorn:


The bait is tossed out.

Agree.................The Bait is out.

Tink has a great suggestion.

The OP could go to the County for a complete understanding.

Otherwise :popcorn:

Does anyone know anything about reverse mortgages?

I think it was mentioned on the “Gate Strikes “ thread.:ho:

I'm sorta glad the OP pointed this out. There has to be a pretty devious reason for the Sun to rehash this so soon after the two got locked up.

I feel you! Skating on thin ice myself :boxing2:

Dannngggg, I thought it was in the "DOG POOP" thread...
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How long do nasty points last???

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Sum it up one of several ways to bleed residents.

Yes, but they're impish (thus the name) and can be caught easily.

Definition
 

Does the OP I see a lot here mean old people or something else?

LOL, it means original poster, but old person would also be appropriate.

OPOP means Old Person Old Poster.

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Yes ! I’m interested in a RM !

Where can I find info about this ?? LOL 😂

Impact Fee Information
 

If you want to know how not collecting the appropriate impact fees caused Sumter County taxes to go up 25.5% in 2019 see Scott Fenstermaker - YouTube.
If you want to learn what impact fees are go to FlaglerLive.com and look for, “Impact Fees: What They Are, Who Pays Them, How Much They Pay.”

Answer
 

To answer your question…..new commercial development. The answer was in the first paragraph of the article.

Impact fees are not necessary when building 5,000 new homes adding more that one billion in taxable real estate to the base every year.

In addition the developer provides the bonus of a new state of the art charter education facility with staff at no charge to the county.

As long as the moderator deems it to be so, sometimes forever.

Our 25% property-tax increase, enacted to protect the Developer's sweetheart impact fee, disproves that nonsense. BTW, charter schools are paid for with tax dollars, just like public schools.

The new charter schools being built are being paid for by The Developer, not your tax $$$...

Hey look! It's the Avacado reincarnated..

The Developer is building the schools but get education funding just like any other public school.

Charter Schools

Very interesting and thanks for the clarification.

I think it's safe to say thanks to the development, residents of The Villages are a primary source of funding to education in the county.

I know that they are built and INITIALLY paid for by the Developer, but once up and running, the charter schools will be receiving our tax dollars in an amount adequate to cover the amortized (technically depreciated) original building costs. Those dollars are siphoned away from dollars that would otherwise go to Wildwood public schools. Although I agree with you that The Villages charter schools are state of the art and exceptionally well run, they are not a gift from the Developer.

Welcome back, avocado. Glad to see you didn't change your tagline of "the developer's sweetheart impact fee deal":1rotfl::1rotfl::1rotfl:

Are we going to have to go thru all of that again?:a040:

If it came from the Daily Sun developer owned newspaper.
Thought this was a settled matter when Gov DeSantis signed controversial bill in June.

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You are right. The sweetheart impact fee remains in place, our massive tax hike that subsidizes it does as well, and many residents are oblivious as to what is going on. Only now the ante has been raised, with the arrest of two of the Commissioners who pledged to increase the fee and roll back the tax increase.

Although all the facts are not yet publicly available, the arrests appear to be the result of a carefully orchestrated perjury trap set up to enable the two Commissioners to be removed from office and replaced with subs who are friendly to the Developer. I know both Search and Miller and would be amazed if either one actually committed perjury-- although the Daily Sun seems intent on convicting them in the court of public opinion.