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Residents urge county to consider impact fees, farmland preservation and delay Raccoon Bike Park expansion
Summary
During the public comment period, residents raised concerns about tourism-driven land-price increases and called for impact or user fees and farmland-preservation funding; a neighborhood resident asked the board to postpone work on Raccoon Bike Park phase 2 over safety, sanitation and septic/percolation concerns.
Three residents used the Feb. 17 public-comment period to raise development and recovery-related concerns.
Don Smart, who identified himself as a farmer and Farm Bureau member, urged the board to study a developer impact fee or user fee to offset infrastructure costs that heavy new development places on sewer, roads and emergency services. Smart said recent in-migration and short-term visitors have driven land and housing prices up “in the last three years,” and asked the county to consider directing tax-rollback…
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