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If proffers already exist for the development, no impact fees can be required. Although the Northern Virginia Building Industry Association favored the bill with the amendments, the Virginia Home Builders Association opposed it.
“The cost is ultimately paid by the home purchaser,” Carl Bowmer of the VHBA told the committee. “It’s a double tax on them,” he added.
“All the bill did was pick up areas in Northern Virginia where they don’t have proffers,” said Sen. William E. Truban, R-27th District, on? of four committee members who opposed the bill. “They’ve knocked out the little guy,” said Truban, remarking that small-scale developers cannot afford the costs of impact fees.
The amendments “do not make a developer sustain the same burden twice," said Sen. Gartlan, who advocated the bill’s changes. “It’s proffers or impact fees, not both," Gartlan explained.
Also under the reformed bill, impact fees could not become effective until 1990.
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