Talk of The Villages Florida - Rentals, Entertainment & More
Talk of The Villages Florida - Rentals, Entertainment & More
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- The increase in fees is much more than 25%. Currently a developer is assessed 40% of the maximum allowable impact fee. One proposal is to nearly double that to 75% and another is to go even further and raise it to the full 100%. - Inside The Villages (TV) the current assessment for a single-family home is about $950. Under the largest proposal, that assessment would go up to about $2,500. I could have paid another $1,600 for my home and not even noticed it. - The increased fees affect both those inside and outside TV. We are mostly all pretty fortunate inside TV; we are mostly retired and chose to move here knowing what the costs were. Not everyone outside TV can say that. - Outside TV the current assessment for a single-family home is about $2,500. Under the largest proposal, that assessment would go up to about $6,350. I probably would have noticed a $4,000 increase. - A fast-food restaurant is assessed something close to $29,000 per 1,000 square feet. A Chik-fil-A must be at least 2,000 square feet so it would be assessed at least $58,000. Under the largest proposal, that assessment would go up to about $145,000. I'm absolutely sure someone would notice that additional $85,000! (Source of numbers: Sumter County Road Impact Fee Schedule 10/1/2020) It would be easy to accept a $1,600 increase on my home but it's probably not so easy for someone outside TV to handle an additional $4,000 and it could be a deal-breaker to ask a fast-food restaurant to pay an additional $85,000 before the first $3 sandwich was sold. Is it right to view TV as a cash cow and ask everyone of the homeowners to pay $350/year to reduce the fees on new construction? That's one of the items the new Commissioners ran against so it appears that homeowners don't think so. if my current understanding of the situation is correct (the $85,000 increase) then we may find that it isn't possible to have our cake and eat it too. Someone who has studied this more may be able to provide better insight.
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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. Victor, NY Randallstown, MD Yakima, WA Stevensville, MD Village of Hillsborough Last edited by Bill14564; 01-14-2021 at 08:16 AM. Reason: Clarification |
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Welcome to TV!!!!! Couple more soundbites to chew on.........: The 25% increase in County taxes generated $50,000,000. The new County commissioners ran on, "Reverse the 25% increase & make TV pay thru increased Impact Fees" Doing the math: $50mil / 3,000 new homes = $16,000 increase/house So the campaign promise will create a new Impact Fee of ~$17,000 per new house constructed. And voters fell for this.
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The good ol boys will vote against their best interest every time. As we have seen
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Facts are better than a LITTLE common sense.
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For the last few years the millage rates have been: 5.5900 5.5200 5.3365 6.7000 (the increase of 25%) 6.4390 (a decrease of 4%) If you take 5.3365 as the starting point then the increase was 1.3635 per thousand dollars of assessed value. For a $350,000 home the increase would be $477 in additional taxes.
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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. Victor, NY Randallstown, MD Yakima, WA Stevensville, MD Village of Hillsborough |
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I love voting people in to fix a problem and then for them to become the problem.
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Getting ready to fill the new sinkholes.
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Unlike the former commissioners, at least the new ones actually acknowledged the presence of, and listened to the concerns of, those opposing a controversial issue.
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Maybe not, it could be less. Is the house homesteaded? If so, take $50K off before multiplying by the millage rate. There could be some other reductions also.
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Anyone notice that the developers newspaper aka the Village Sun had about the most one sided article in history against this tax increase.
Guess they do not need an editorial page just make "news articles" tell you how they feel. |
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Time for a recall. People are now waking up to reality.
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