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		<title>Averting Financial Disaster Requires Bold Leadership</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Nov 2007 02:45:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There is plenty of blame to go around for Gwinnett County&#8217;s current financial crisis. You can begin with Wayne Hill and the pro-growth Commissioners who, upon taking office in the early &#8217;90s rescinded the county&#8217;s newly-enacted impact fee ordinance, thereby denying the county hundreds of millions in non-tax revenue. You can blame the current Commission [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Impact fees on the `ignore` pile</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Oct 2007 16:41:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On 10/16, the County Commission received the results of a report by the UGA Carl Vinson Institute of Government. The study recommended that a citizen panel be created to accept ethics complaints against county officials.
The AJC article gave no indication that any additional action on this issue is being contemplated by the Commission.
Ethics reform will [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Builders 1, Schools 0</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Sep 2007 13:45:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[[An Atlanta Journal-Constitution editorial by Maureen Downey]
In two weeks, Oregon school districts will be able to levy a construction tax on new development to help defray the cost of building and improving schools. Oregon&#8217;s new law will place the state among the 20 or so that have realized that the property taxes generated by new [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The $500,000 Lie</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Mar 2007 06:32:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[At the Ebony Society candidates&#8217; forum on June 1, responding to a question about impact fees, District 4 County Commissioner (and candidate for reelection) Kevin Kenerly replied (paraphrased):
&#8220;If Gwinnett had had impact fees when Hamilton Mill was built, we would have had to write the developer a check for $500,000 for all the stuff he [...]]]></description>
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		<title>An Impact Fee Benefit: Lower Taxes</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Mar 2007 06:23:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[One question often asked about impact fees is, &#8220;Will charging them cause my tax bill to decrease?&#8221;
The short answer is&#8211; they can. The following example is intended to provide a generalized overview of the potential value of an impact fee program solely in terms of the benefit to the taxpayer where the fee replaces general [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Debunking the Bunk #1</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Mar 2007 06:14:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Newspapers serve an important, and often critical, purpose in society, especially when it comes to keeping an eye on government and politicians. But newspaper reporters aren&#8217;t all-knowing and they&#8217;re not infallible. They also have limited space to fill and other considerations which may prevent them from telling the whole story, or from adequately analyzing the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>C&#8217;mon, Developers, You Can Do Better</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Mar 2007 06:01:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[(Originally published 12/21/05) 
Dennis Billew, President of Development Consultants Group and pro-development editorialist in the company newsletter at DIRT-e.info, is described by his co-workers as &#8220;Gwinnett&#8217;s Hardest-Working-for-the-Longest-Time, Highly Influential, Best-Informed Development Consultant, and All-Around Nice Guy&#8221;.
Dennis (a really nice guy in person) has written on more than one occasion on the topic of impact fees and [...]]]></description>
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