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Citrus County adopts new impact-fee ordinance after months of study, 4-1 vote
Summary
The county approved a consultant-backed update to governmental impact fees — increasing most fees to the study'recommended amounts and adopting a 100% cost-recovery schedule — after public workshops and a contested debate about whether to include right-of-way acquisition in transportation fees.
The Citrus County Board of County Commissioners on July 29 voted 4-1 to adopt a new impact-fee ordinance that raises most governmental impact fees to the levels recommended in a consultant'led study and sets cost recovery at 100% for those fees. The ordinance will change the one-time charges imposed on new development for government services such as transportation, fire, EMS, libraries, parks and public buildings. County growth-management staff and Stantec Consulting presented the study at two statutorily required public workshops and again during the public hearing. Peter Napoli of Stantec told the board, "Impact fees are a onetime fee or charge that are assessed to new units of development. They are charged onetime around the issuance of the building permit. They are designed to capture the cost…
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