County Commissioners Shift Stance, Now Support Corbett Impact Fee

From NPR:

…CCAP has aggres­sively pushed for an impact fee, but balked at Corbett’s plan to admin­is­ter and col­lect it on the county level. Hill said mem­bers were wor­ried the process would add more demands to already-stretched county tax col­lec­tors and admin­is­tra­tors. He had also expressed con­cern coun­ties would impose dif­fer­ent levies, and cre­ate an eco­nomic “bor­der war” of sorts, where drillers would flock to areas with lower fees.

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The poten­tial for a county-to-county dis­par­ity still remains, but Hill said Caw­ley and Hen­der­son assured CCAP that coun­ties would not need to develop the dis­tri­b­u­tion for­mu­las for their munic­i­pal­i­ties, or be charged with enforc­ing the municipal-level fee spend­ing. “The bot­tom line is, our respon­si­bil­ity with munic­i­pal­i­ties ends with us dis­trib­ut­ing the funds to them,” said Hill. Statewide data reported to the Depart­ment of Envi­ron­men­tal Pro­tec­tion would form the basis for fee dis­tri­b­u­tion for­mu­las, he said…

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