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with developers.” the planning director said.
John Dooley, member of the Bedford County Board of Supervisors, said his county’s imputation is projected to increase 100 percent by the year 2000 as Bedford goes from rural community to bedroom and retirement community. "Impact fees is just one of the tools we need," he said, adding that conditional zoning, proffers and regional cooperation are also necessary components of any growth-management strategy.
'The most exj>ensive costs are those that are off the development site," said Margaret Maizell, chairman of the Clarke County Planning Commission. "Raising taxes on farmland and open space is not the. answer to paying for development. That would be killing the goose that lays the golden egg,” she said, noting that in Clarke, farmland and open space demand only 11 cents worth of services for every dollar paid in taxes, leaving the remaining St) cents as an “outright gift” to the county’s general fund.
She espoused a "fiscally conservative pay-as-you-go with fees” approach to funding the new roads, schools and playgrounds required by new development. And with statewide enabling legislation for impact fees and enhanced conditional zoning sought by Clarke and other rural counties, “we re not talking about no growth: we’re talking about growth management," Ms. Maizell said.
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