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Nonprofit asks Hernando commissioners to waive or fund impact fees for affordable homes
Summary
YouthRite Florida House to Home asked the County Commission to consider waiving or covering impact fees for nonprofit-built affordable homes and to increase local SHIP funding, citing that impact fees pushed development costs beyond nonprofit budgets.
Richard Sabanero, director of YouthRite Florida's House to Home program, urged the Hernando County Board of County Commissioners during public comment on June 10 to consider options to ease impact fees for nonprofit builders of affordable homes.
Sabanero said his nonprofit paid about $10,000 in impact fees for a recent project and that the added costs make projects unaffordable for the low- and moderate-income buyers the program serves. He cited Florida Statute 163.31801 (as referenced in his remarks) and asked the board to consider either waiving local impact…
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