Their concern is that the INTENT of proffers is to offset the impacts of development on schools, roads, fire/rescue, etc.

And any locality that does not use proffers for that purpose is actually passing on those increased costs to county taxpayers.

If this is what is happening done in Caroline, ya’ll need to start getting rid of the folks who favor growth and to pass the costs of growth onto the backs of existing residents – many of which do not make NoVa salaries and others of which are on very fixed incomes …living in fairly modest circumstances.

Every new home built, on average, is occupied by 2.4 people. The .4 is a kid. New schools cost, on average, about 10K per school seat.

If new growth does not pay part of this cost – and the existing county taxpayers do not (unless the tax rate is raised), then you’ll end up with seriously overcrowded schools.

What amazes me is that this is not rocket science. Spotsylvania and Stafford made these mistakes many years ago before voters started throwing the pro-growth, do-not-collect-proffers folks out of office.

Now Caroline seems to be repeating the same mistakes…