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Frederick County leaders press for state fixes to update developer proffers and cover growth costs
Summary
At a legislative forum Oct. 30, Frederick County supervisors and state lawmakers debated options to ensure developers pay capital costs of growth, including calculating proffers at certificate of occupancy or carving exemptions for fast‑growing counties. Legal limits on retroactivity and affordable‑housing tradeoffs were central concerns.
Frederick County supervisors and the county’s state legislators spent the bulk of a Oct. 30 legislative forum debating how to make developers pay more of the capital costs of rapid growth without undermining affordable housing.
Supervisor Blaine Dunn, who spoke at length about local growth pressures, said the county’s population jump has strained schools and roads and that updated impact fees are needed so existing residents do not subsidize new development. “In February, we had less than 59,000 people. Today, we’re close to 96,000,” Dunn said, adding that a county model showed some capital-cost components of impact fees are now far larger than the amounts proffered years ago.
The core policy idea discussed was to…
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