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Citizens push for clarity as Panama City debates transportation impact fee goals and exemptions
Summary
At a town hall discussion of a proposed transportation impact fee, residents urged the commission to define the target revenue, clarify exceptions, and publish a long-term repaving plan so that fee exemptions do not undermine funding for roads.
Residents at a Panama City town hall urged the City Commission on Saturday to set a clear objective for the proposed transportation impact fee and to quantify how much money the city expects to raise before adopting exemptions.
“Do we want $10,000,000 in this fund? What do we want?” asked Brian Garman, a resident who followed recent meetings on the fee. Garman and others warned that broad or numerous exemptions could erode the fee’s purpose and shift costs to taxpayers. “It seems like it’s going where it's like exception, exception, exception,” he said,…
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