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Impact Fees
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Though not a record, legislators filed a whopping 2,921 bills and resolutions for the 2000 legislative session. Legislators are facing a heavy workload in the remaining six weeks of this session.
Members of the House of Delegates and the state Senate essentially have until February 15, 2000 to tackle their chamber's bills. All surviving bills cross over to the other chamber to be reviewed and voted on by the close of the session, March 11, 2000.
Many of these bills are growth control measures introduced by the handful of delegates and senators in high growth areas of the state, including Loudoun and Fairfax County's Delegate Dick Black. |
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"The entire Loudoun delegation understands the problems of growth. It is evident because every one of us has a growth control bill pending." - Black |
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Delegate Black has introduced an Impact Fee Bill in hopes
of easing some of the financial burden in high growth areas. Black's bill would allow localities to adopt an impact fee ordinance for public facilities. |
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Although zoning and growth management are largely controlled by local Boards of Supervisors, Black's Impact Fee bill attempts to generate revenue to fund or recover the costs of public facilities necessitated by, and attributable to, new developments they approve. |
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"The biggest hurdle we face with growth control bills is that many of the delegates and senators are not facing the same problems as the high growth areas," Dick Black commented. "This is the reason growth control bills didn't fair well last year." However, Black noted that this year there are a large number of growth control measures filed. Every member of the Loudoun County delegation has introduced growth control legislation. |
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Mims and May have introduced duplicate Senate and House versions of an Affordability Index intended to manage growth. "He's doing them on the Senate side, I'm doing them on the House side," Delegate Joe May (R-33) explained. "Hopefully, we'll be wearing both sides down. I don't really care which is successful as long as one is." |
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"Preserving Loudoun's beauty is obviously important to the Loudoun delegation," Black said. "People move to Loudoun because it is a great place to live and we are working to keep it that way." |
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