Comments on: How about you guys build something now?: Haymount gets new partner!

By: Larry Gross

Larry Gross — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 19:40:53 +0000

Developments like Haymount if they do not offset their impacts – you can figure out almost down to the house how much the rest of the county residents are going to pay.

The big gorilla in the closet is schools. Each Kids costs about 3-4K local money and each home real estate tax – 300-400K pays about 1/2 that amount. The rest comes from you-know-who.

By: Timothy Watson

Timothy Watson — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 13:26:03 +0000

It’s the county government own stupidity if they’re not prepared. They’ve have had about 16 years to get ready for Haymount.

By: Larry Gross

Larry Gross — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 12:53:44 +0000

Does Haymount have a proffer arrangement?

4000 homes will normally generate 40,000 car trips a day and about 2000 school-aged kids and need a half million gallons a day of fresh water and sewage.

A new school will cost 30-50 million dollars.

Widening Route 17 will cost a minimum of about 10 million a mile..

Residential growth, unless fully proffered, will impose these costs on existing property owners.

“Fully proffered” – in counties that have had some experience with proffers and residential growth usually shakes out to about 30K per house.