10-19-2010, 09:25 AM
But you drive on County Roads when you leave the subdivision. Increase population has an impact on County Roads and all other County services.
Like I said before, it's a problem because the County is limited on how they can deal with this. The old way, which targeted only residential subdivision developers and all non residential developers was illegal. The only options are:
1. Increase property taxes to cover impact mitigation cost. That puts the burden on everyone including those who already paid increase taxes to cover cost the old way. Property taxes are also limited in increases and can't cover the cost to the County.
2. Development conditions. This is also very limited in scope. They can't mitigate impacts outside the development. They can ask the develeoper to build a park within the new subdivision or provide land for a fire station, but that still does not cover the cost to the County of providing the facilities.
3. Impact Fees.
The CoH did try to lessen the blow to individual residential property development with the Fair Share methiod, but developers agreed to this knowing that it was an Impact Fee which made fair Share illegal because Impact Fees wer not on the books.
I think the issue confronting everyone is, What is the alternative?
Like I said before, it's a problem because the County is limited on how they can deal with this. The old way, which targeted only residential subdivision developers and all non residential developers was illegal. The only options are:
1. Increase property taxes to cover impact mitigation cost. That puts the burden on everyone including those who already paid increase taxes to cover cost the old way. Property taxes are also limited in increases and can't cover the cost to the County.
2. Development conditions. This is also very limited in scope. They can't mitigate impacts outside the development. They can ask the develeoper to build a park within the new subdivision or provide land for a fire station, but that still does not cover the cost to the County of providing the facilities.
3. Impact Fees.
The CoH did try to lessen the blow to individual residential property development with the Fair Share methiod, but developers agreed to this knowing that it was an Impact Fee which made fair Share illegal because Impact Fees wer not on the books.
I think the issue confronting everyone is, What is the alternative?