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MAY -27 -1952 08.36 FROM TO 96443004 P.82 <br />AV s,z.I -�a <br />Kenner B. Tquw <br />2027 'VwavVWm <br />CA&t,d ,dW 27y4 ,MO <br />Tuesday, May LA, 199 sT <br />The Cha % 101 1Yewsp�spel <br />305 Wed Franklin street <br />Chapel Hill, HC 37514 <br />To The Editor. <br />No one likes the idea of an Impact Fee, but the alternatives <br />for taxDayers are worse. Recent media reports seem to have lost <br />sight of tfie 'big picture" and the historical perspective. <br />As much as we all feel we pay too much in taxes, the <br />property tax aid by the average homeowner is not enough to <br />covert a of services provided to that home. For <br />am le, In W-tse- <br />rnp osed et for 1992 -93, the owner of a <br />X11 o=' house wUI pa $ 45 property taxes. The education of <br />just one child will cost he county $1,301 and education is only one <br />part of the services provided. <br />The county capital new in addition to operat%g <br />expenses., homes mean that the county must have <br />additional p facilities. The sheriff will need more patrol cars, the <br />rescue squads will need more emergency vehicles, and the <br />schools will need more classrooms. <br />Should current residents pay the entire cost of growth? it <br />seems fair to me to ask new residents to pay for a small portion <br />of the added facilities their presence demands, How they pay is a <br />problem. <br />Inipose <br />a tax whic Orange to hissaolue owthhee newel tm <br />However, the &te Legislature at Its bast session would only <br />permit them to charge a flat fee. Local state legislators have said <br />that an impact tax, admittedl more table, will not be <br />allowed by State Law in the foreseeabe futurc <br />I am sure the Commissioners will set a fee in the low end of <br />the range possible They are checking the legality of basing the <br />fee on the number of bedrooms, but pp ps the number aT <br />bathrooms would be better bees the�yare easier to count. <br />hi@ grants to purchasers of afirdable housing would offset <br />