I will be discussing bringing back concurrency to the BCC's Land Development Code at our next committee of the whole meeting. There have now been several articles in the news about this, including this one from the PNJ today which discusses the new state law limiting impact fee year over year percentage increases, as well as Santa Rosa's challenges to implementing Impact Fees there. The last couple of paragraphs capture some of my thoughts on these fees and how I envision them working here in Escambia County.
I do not support impact fees--I support concurrency as an alternative to them.
Concurrency is smarter, more targeted, and I believe an overall better solution.
Now, developers and homebuilders do not like any form of impact fees, nor do they like concurrency.
One of the arguments against ANY additional concurrency or impact fees being levied on Escambia County builders that I have heard a lot is that "Escambia county already has the one-cent sales surtax" that can be used for infrastructure. So why make the builders pay more? Is the rhetorical follow-on question.
So, I looked statewide at how other counties handle this---especially the counties that also collect the discretionary sales tax like we do. And a couple of interesting facts stand out.
#1---99% of Florida Counties already collect some form of discretionary sales tax like our 1 penny LOST....99%!! or 66 of 67 counties. (Citrus County is the lone county in Florida that does not collect local option sales taxes on purchases----yet ironically they DO collect impact fees on developments...)
#2---of the counties that already collect a local option sales tax----a full 57% ALSO collect Impact fees to help pay for the costs of growth and infrastructure the growth demands.
So the argument that we already have LOST and therefore we don't need any other funds to offset infrastructure challenges of growth simply does not hold water. That argument is not persuasive. See the breakdown, below.
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That's Great!!
Also as far as your joint meeting with Pensacola and them falling into the agenda of removing Pensacola's historic monuments and calling people white supremacist if they don't wish to remove the iconic Five Flags brand, the Chipley Monument and the Confederate Veterans Monument -- This is the trap they are falling into with the cancel culture and demonizing our founding fathers. From 2016, still true today. Please pass this own from a county constituent.
https://thefederalist.com/2016/09/28/black-lives-matter-bringing-back-traditional-marxism/
Black vs. White Is the New Proletariat vs. Bourgeoisie
"But more important is BLM’s use of the black versus white dichotomy. While race has a long history as a wedge issue, BLM incorporates nearly all forms of modern marginalization—“including but not limited to those who are women, queer, trans, femmes, gender nonconforming, Muslim, formerly and currently incarcerated, cash poor and working class, differently-abled, undocumented, and immigrant”—into blackness. Conversely, whiteness represents all forms of privilege (economic, social, and legal) throughout the platform.
BLM has simply substituted Marx’s class conflict between the proletariat and bourgeoisie for class conflict between blackness and whiteness. But unlike income and wealth, blackness and whiteness are not temporary states: while 56 percent of American households occupy the top 10 percent of the income bracket at some point during their lives, such transience does not occur with an immutable characteristic like race."
It looks like they aren't taking public input for the joint meeting but it would be appreciated if you would bring this forward.
It's difficult to get this word out with the modern day Stasi, Like facebook What's Happening Pensacola that got their group back, (14K) hunting down people they disagree with and publicly scorning and harassing them and trying to get them to lose their jobs and businesses. if they find out they support America First (Non communist)principles. (Trump supporters)
They remind me of indoctrinated Storm troopers with something switched (gone haywire) in their brain and they don't even know they are ruining their own country, county and city.
Thank you for all you do.
Good job bringing this. Happy the Westmarks gained their opt opt. It only takes a few keystrokes and a simple search see see opts outs are legal in Florida. JAR causing problems.
I didn't even look to see how they covered all that. Ridiculous.
I can see using the plan if it was one landowner.
EW was right about the activist trying to make the board look bad.
Not sure about all the EMS discussion--- Lumon didn't even remember what was going on with the billing software. I think you all reverted to the old system.
Down a lot of employees, must be a combination of problems. Everything is not black and white and cannot be blamed on one person. I think Eric Gilmore is the rock we can build upon.
MP is unable to see the grey areas, her blame tactics is very much like Underhill and Edler They are all very similar in personality --
Unwilling to take responsibility for their own shortcomings. Not humble nor teachable.
"I observe the world and don’t see a lot of humility these days. But, pride is all over the place. Research demonstrates that humility is closely correlated with courage, integrity, strong leadership, self-control, learning, and better relationships. Here are ten characteristics of a humble person that move us to the above-listed desired outcomes in life.
A humble person is teachable. Humility believes it can always learn from the education and experiences of others. A humble person is a growing person who is quick to read, invite feedback, and ask good questions.
A humble person is at peace with themselves and others. Humility embraces contentment and simplicity. It doesn’t need to have the nicest or be the best. Humility puts relationships before the need to be right. Humility enjoys balance and harmony.
A humble person is grateful. Humility isn’t entitled. Humility believes it doesn’t deserve a darn thing and is thankful for the many blessings received in life.
A humble person is slow to offend and quick to forgive. Humility is keenly mindful of the grace it has received and is quick to extend that grace to others.
A humble person asks for help. Humility helps us know who we are and who we are not. Humility allows us to live authentically. Humility sees assistance and support as an opportunity to develop and not as a sign of weakness.
A humble person treats everybody with respect. Humility teaches us to believe that we are not much better or worse than anybody else, all people have great value, and all people deserve to be treated as such.
A humble person is patient and doesn’t easily get frustrated with the imperfection of others. Humility knows that mistakes and inadequacies are part of life. Humility is tolerant of self and others when deficiencies appear and failures happen.
A humble person recognizes their own limitations. Humility doesn’t have a negative view of self. Humility has an accurate view of self. Humility leads us to the powerful and beautiful place of living out our strengths and passions in life.
A humble person celebrates the accomplishments of others. Humility sees others as co-pilgrims and collaborators and not competitors. Humility genuinely rejoices when others prosper and triumph.
A humble person is open to a deep relationship with God. Humility knows God is the creator of the world and people are the created. Pride elevates self over God. Pride leads us to worship the idols of control, sex, money, and power. Humility leads us to Jesus."(or a similar type spiritual connection)
We need more humble people in positions of leadership in Escambia County. They seek to balance power, not control power.
http://craigfinnestad.com/?p=1738
Major Robinson had a few words for this on MP post about the joint meeting but I doubt she will receive the feed back.
At the end of the BCC meeting, county attorney AR said you will have a shade meeting scheduled before the next meeting-- which of course is appropriate.
I fondly remember your "Making sausage" blogs in 2017 when you published those after the fact.
I like your transparency yet it is reserved for those paying attention willing to read between the lines.
I hope you do that with the Qui Tam ones. Of course anyone can go to Pacer also.
I think you should not pay attorneys for something so simple it could have been handled in house especially because it was not handled fairly and equitably.
F#%K buddies got a free pass.. Right?
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