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By DAPHNE HUTCHINSON
Rappahannock Newa Staff Writer
At a work session Dec. 15, Rappahannock’s supervisors adopted their first “wish list” for legislation from Virginia’s General Assembly.
With few changes, the agenda is essentially the package presented by County Administrator John McCarthy for the board’s consideration. And in another first, the board members indicated they may send Mr. McCarthy to Richmond for a few days to represent the county’s interests at the 1989 session, which begins in mid-January.
First on Rappahannock’s agenda is enabling legislation which would extend the full proffer system of conditional zoning to all counties and allow local governments statewide to impose impact fees so that new development pays a fair share of the new services and facilities it demands.
Generally, impact fees in other states which have similar systems run $900 to $3,000, figured per unit or on a square-footage basis, Mr. McCarthy reported. “Most people spend more on kitchen cabinets and everybody spends more on kitchen appliances,” he said, adding that the fees would not add significantly to the total cost of a new house.
Impact fees represent a more clearly-defined relationship between cost to the developer and services or facilities provided by local government, the board decided. Full conditional zoning — whereby the developer “voluntarily” offers to build the roads, donate a school site, or provide a park to offset the service demands expected from his development — “is a corrupt sounding thing,” said Supervisor Nelson Lane. “You can extort yourself into abandoning your whole zoning ordinance. ”
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