Wednesday, December 21, 2005

Yes Virginia, there is a Sanity Clause

Lower Mount Bethel Township is out in front when it comes to solving traffic and school tax woes! They applied for and received a grant for a Park & Ride and at least one of their residents is asking that developers be charged impact fees to fund additional school construction costs. Kudos.

The Park & Ride may help Forks and College Hill residents by giving them a place to park and ride and thus cut down some of the traffic passing through to get to the bridges. This is good news indeed.

As to the school tax impact fee, Representative Grucela (also from LMBT) has drafted a bill that will allow local municipalities to determine the real effects of development on their school systems and charge appropriate impact fees to the developers - which will lessen needed new school construction costs now imposed on existing property owners. Read Grucela's bill, HB-102.

1 comment:

It's a FAC said...

There's a meeting tonight (1/9/06) in Upper Mount Bethel Township to discuss/explain the concept of local governments charging school impact fees. The weather's good and unless you are planning to attend the Forks Zoning Hearing Board meeting at 7:30 for the CVS variance request (Uhlers & Sullivan Trail), why not attend?