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Hillsborough school leaders outline growth-management tools, warn impact-fee cap limits revenue
Summary
At a June 24 workshop, district staff and consultants reviewed enrollment projections, student-generation rates and the county-controlled impact-fee process, and warned that a state statutory cap will limit how far county impact fees can rise even if a district study recommends a much larger increase.
The Hillsborough County School Board heard a detailed briefing June 24 on how growth management, student-generation rates and county impact fees shape the district’s ability to fund new schools.
Deputy Superintendent Farkas told the board the workshop would “level set” the group on a complex, multi-part topic and stressed that the session was for information, not to produce decisions. He said the district’s growth-management team coordinates the five-year facilities plan, school siting, boundary work and county development tracking tied to school concurrency.
The discussion matters because rapid residential approvals in parts of the county — most notably the South County urban service-area expansion north of Plant City — are expected to produce thousands of new dwellings and, by the district’s…
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