Be sure to have a fresh pot of coffee available, it's a challenging read.

Thanks for the continued education Don, very much appreciated.

Anyone interested in understanding how the Developer is milking us via his sweetheart impact fee and our massive property-tax hike should read this article:

FL legislators bigfoot local government to benefit big-money developers | Florida Phoenix

Your source is a joke!

influence watch .org

"Florida Phoenix was established in 2018 as a left-leaning news and opinion outlet focused on government and political news coverage within the state of Florida. [1] It is part of the left-of-center media organization States Newsroom (formerly the Newsroom Network), [2] which was until 2019 a project of the Hopewell Fund, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit managed by the for-profit consulting firm Arabella Advisors. [3]

Florida Phoenix is also supported by the Washington DC-based New Venture Fund, another grant making and project sponsorship nonprofit managed by Arabella Advisors. New Venture Fund is underwritten by organizations like the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. [4]

New Venture Fund, Hopewell Fund, and Arabella Advisors have faced criticism for creating a “dark money” network of left-of-center advocacy organizations. [5]"

So, please point out the errors in the article.

I would not read any of the blather from your clearly unbalanced source. And stop blowing smoke up clear thinking Americans's arses.

I am always glad to be educated, but I didn't see any misstatements of fact in the article. I would suggest you read it before attacking it. By the way, true conservatives should be in favor of local self-rule and against crony capitalism.

Your article obviously has its own slant and doesn’t discuss the cons of impact fees. I prefer a more balanced academic approach to the subject. There are some disadvantages to impact fees. The complexity of implementation of impact fees and the impact on low to moderate housing are two of the most prominent. He is an academic paper that gives a more balanced view.

http://impactfees.com/publications%20pdf/dif.pdf

:blahblahblah:So where is the roll back??

The Taxman taketh, and thou seeist no more!

Thanks to the Developer's employee-legislator Brett Hage's co-sponsored legislation restricting impact-fee increases, you can, at least for now, forget about a tax rollback. In a nutshell: The Developer's sweetheart impact fee continues, as does our huge property-tax hike.

Big-money wins; the rest of us lose.

Of course he does, but the current residents are paying for the county infrastructure that the new purchaser necessitates. In other words, we are subsidizing the Developer's expansion of The Villages.

Thanks to the Developer's employee-legislator Brett Hage's co-sponsored legislation restricting impact-fee increases, you can, at least for now, forget about a tax rollback. In a nutshell: The Developer's sweetheart impact fee continues, as does our huge property-tax hike.

Excuses, excuses….we don’t need no d#&% excuses.

Why are new fees or taxes needed for a roll back? How about looking at cutting expenditures first and see how far that will get?

Unrelated to the post/topic, enjoy hearing yourself.

Current spending programs were enacted while the Developer's Commissioners were in control of the County Commission. In fairness to those Commissioners, I am not aware of their being guilty of wasteful spending. Which County services do you want to cut back?

I think that you will find that the problem is not wasteful spending by the County government. We do, in fact, do need a lot of new County infrastructure because of the massive expansion of The Villages. That costs money.

The inequity here is the fact that we current residents are paying, through the massive property-tax hike, for county infrastructure that should be paid for by the Developer through reasonable impact fees. Estep, Miller, and Search were overwhelmingly elected to the County Commission to rectify that unfairness. However, it looks like the Developer has been successful in thwarting the will of the voters.

My post is completely related to the post/topic, but feel free to ignore it or refute it.