County Commission needs to implement TRUE Impact Fees
County Commission needs to implement TRUE Impact FeesTax debate centers on growth By ANDY HUMBLES, Tennessean Staff Writer
Sunday, February 13, 2005 Assessing the impact of new taxes By KEITH RUSSELL, Tennessean Staff Writer
Increased fees haven't stalled new development By MARGO RIVERS, Tennessean Staff Writer
Dateline April 27, 2003: Population boom has kids bouncing from school to school by Margo Rivers, Tennessean Staff Writer.
Dateline June 12, 2003: Just don't raise taxes, citizens say By IAN DEMSKY, Tennessean Staff Writer
Dateline November 5, 2001: I am quoted in a Tennessean article, Murfreesboro seeking firm to do impact fee study by EMILY HEFFTER, Tennessean Staff Writer.
October 7, 2001 DNJ: To pay or not to pay: Officials face question of impact fees By John Callow, Staff Reporter of The Daily News Journal.
October 8, 2001 DNJ: Impact fees no solution to stopping city’s growth: Officials assert that charges could regulate change By John Callow, Staff Reporter of The Daily News Journal and The answer is impact fees by David Limbaugh.
July 24, 2001 DNJ: Impact fees, metro government need look a DNJ letter to the editor.
When created, the county development tax law, authorized by an act of the General Assembly, did not say exactly how the revenue must be spent, even though commissioners have explained it was created to pay for structures and other long-term capital expenses required by growth in the county.Impact Fees are earmarked for specific expenses when they are created.
March 2, 2003, Weather has builders feeling blue: Rain and ice makes it tough to close projects By Laren Anderson, Staff Reporter of The Daily News Journal
May 10, 2001, Impact tax has not slowed growth or covered need for schools By EMILY HEFFTER, Tennessean Staff Writer.
April 22, 2001, Building permits increase represents five-year high By Byron Hensley, DNJ Staff writer.
Census results impact population: More people means funds for salaries, increased services
October 15, 2001 Wilson officials considering tax on development by WARREN DUZAK, Tennessean Staff Writer.
June 5, 2001, La Vergne impact fee may soar: Increase from 15 percent to 50 percent considered By Byron Hensley, DNJ Staff writer
April 27, 2001, No tax hike needed in Smyrna: Finance director says city has found new sources of revenue By Toby Sells, DNJ Staff writer. "We are spending $745,000 in impact fees."
April 4, 2001 Head challenges Realtors, homebuilers to come up with their own tax plan By Karin Miller, Associated Press Writer and Head offers tax deal to business, counties By DUREN CHEEK, Tennessean Staff Writer.
April 2, 2001 Our COUNTY needs True Impact Fees
Smyrna industrial development fees could go up By Roy Moore, DNJ Staff writer.
February 14, 2001 Maybe if we were Metro then this wouldn't happen?
Smyrna bills district for school's impact By EMILY HEFFTER, Tennessean Staff Writer. Ya think?
February 8, 2001 Our neighbors in Davidson County have some of the same issues that we do.
School land fight dramatizes need to plan for suburban boom By ANNE PAINE and MONICA WHITAKER,
Tennessean Staff Writers.
October 29, 2000 Building permits August record; total value tops $21 million By Byron Hensley, DNJ Staff writer.
Growth comes with a price. Sudden, unimagined changes lurking in growth By Sheila Wissner, Tennessean Staff Writer, Past suggests 840's growth pattern By Sheila Wissner, Tennessean Staff Writer, Suburbs struggle to reduce tax burdens By Sheila Wissner, Tennessean Staff Writer, Controlled growth vital for Rutherford County: MTSU economist warns to avoid Northeast’s problems By Chris Shofner, DNJ Staff writer and New road work to ease traffic congestion seems never to work by John Ehinger, Huntsville Times' editorial page editor.
Revenue slowdown has Franklin examining tax rate By JIM EAST, Tennessean Staff Writer. "If the property tax rate is increased on July 1, it will be the first hike in years -- property tax rates in Franklin have gone down 60% since the enactment of the facilities tax in 1987. That fee charges 34 cents per square foot on new construction, plus $425 per lot."
Smyrna council OKs development impact fees: But new industry escapes city’s growth charge By Byron Hensley, DNJ Staff writer.
Impact fees could pay for Cannon schools: Dale Bush By Scott Broden, DNJ Staff writer.
Impact taxes giveth and taketh away By Trine Tsouderos, Tennessean Staff Writer. Now that growth has slowed, maybe they can catch up?
Children have always had to endure stories from their parents and grandparents about how tough they had it going to school in the old days. Walking five miles one way to school through six-feet of snow is the standard tale to make kids today quit whining about their travails.
But students in Rutherford County schools can make boasts that leave their parents speechless.
Our school board has sued the county commission over the building of new schools.
And that means there will no new schools built in the near future to relieve overcrowding that has some of our classes meeting in utility rooms and some of us eating lunch outside the cafeteria on the floor.
Now that's hardship.
Talks between the two boards to end their political squabbling broke down earlier this month, and the commission decided to build schools with or without the school board's recommendation and approval.
The school board said that was illegal and sued the commission.
The adults in this case should use the summer to back down. Let the school board make decisions on when and where new schools are built. That's their expertise.
And the commission should respect this process, and the needs of children learning in utility rooms and eating on hallway floors.
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