Proposed Impact Fees

[Bob Orts]

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Originally posted by mikewj

Just a thought: If impact fees are charged in places like HPP where the owners pay for all of the infrastructure directly, except for police and fire, will there be a discount for services not provide, OR will the county be required to take over the infrastructure?
If the latter is true, I'll pay retroactively and willingly, thus eliminating the incompetence of the HOA in dealing with road costs!

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Impact Fees are for NEW purposes not to rebuild, renovate or maintain existing. They can't use Impact Fees to improve Highway 130, but they can use Impact Fee's for the PMAR. But since the streets in HPP are private streets, it may be possible for Impact Fees to be used to acquire private property (private road) through eminent domain and build a County road. They can't do it for every street as there just isn’t going to be enough money for that and it has to have a defined public use.

However, the PMAR requires the County to fund a portion out of County money which is funded by all taxpayers. That portion can come out of Impact Fees, freeing up the money they would have used for other purposes.

Basically, new development is paying for the needed new services, not the current tax payers paying for the increase services required by new development.