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add the full proffer system to their “wish list" but with the notation that impact fees is their growth management tool of choice.
And that will come eventually, predicted Robert Dennis, Flint Hill resident and president of the Warrenton-based Piedmont Environmental Council. “Without any leadership — and certainly not from VACO where it should be coming from — a lot of the counties are pulling together” to convince the General Assembly that local governments need another revenue source besides real estate taxes, he reported.
This pressure for enabling legislation is coming not only from urban counties that must improve transportation systems in order to open highways gridlocked by the traffic from burgeoning development, but also from urban counties that are seeking revenue to build new schools and other public facilities required by new subdivisions and a means to preserve rapidlv-disapjiearing open space, Mr. Dennis noted.
Other legislation endorsed by the Rappahannock board includes:
• authority for the county to require proof of adequate water supplies prior to issuance of a building permit. (This power was granted to Fauquier, Loudoun, Prince William and Clarke counties in the 10SJS session.)
• adjustments to the composite index formula so that jurisdictions utilizing use value taxation will not be penalized in school funding.
• new state funding to accompany new state mandates.
• a requirement that the State Compensation Hoard provide localities with its approved budget for all constiSee
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