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County adopts community impact fee ordinance to capture payments from large energy projects
Summary
The Decatur County Council approved a community impact fee ordinance designed to collect fee payments from future large projects — particularly battery storage — for a 10-year period as an alternative to property tax revenue affected by state changes to personal property taxes.
Decatur County Council members approved a draft community impact fee ordinance intended to secure predictable revenue from large projects, the council said, using battery storage development as the motivating example.
Council members and staff described the fee as an exchange: in lieu of certain personal property tax receipts for a project, the county would receive an agreed community impact fee for a 10-year term. The ordinance, staff said, simply sets where the fee revenues are deposited and how the county will manage and spend them…
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