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tained, in regard to taxes and services. Services for a 500acre farm that includes two dwellings would probably cost $1,500 while local taxes would total $4,410, she noted.
“It shows you who’s paying the costs of development,” Mrs. Malta stated.
If a 100-acre farm is divided into the one-acre lots allowed under Warren County ordinances, the development would require $75,600 in services, continued Mrs. Malta. Taxes on the subdivided lots would amount to only $27,000. Using the formula that allots 1.2 children to a household, five new classrooms would be needed to accommodate increased school enrollment from the subdivision with an approximate capital outlay of $100,000 per classroom. According to Mrs. Malta’s figures, the total deficit resulting from switching 100 farm acres to a one-acre lot subdivision would amount to $88,000.
“We’d have to raise taxes 20 cents to offset that deficit,” she maintained. The increase, according to Mrs. Malta, would amount to 13 per cent or $73 for the average family. “If you want that growth and don’t want to raise taxes, then you have to bring in industry,” she continued. At Warren’s current tax rate, the county would need a $1.5 million industry to balance the deficit from a subdivision of 100 one-acre lots.
“I’ve been accused of
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