Impact fees
They look dead in Rogers. The mayor, Steve Womack, says they could hardly do more work than they're doing now if they were assessing fees on new development. Maybe that's so (though I doubt it). But they darn sure don't need to do the reverse of development fees and subsidize new shopping centers with free infrastructure improvements, as Womack has long wanted to do. We note those big fancy shopping centers got built despite lack of the TIF riches that Womack wanted to give away.
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This is absurd. So the city crews are at capacity, so be it. The city can let out bids and let private contractors build roads. They can buy park land before its all one big McMansion. They can increase their police force. They can build fire stations. They can hire Ernie Peters to signalize their intersections. They can hold onto the revenue until they have enough to meet needs as they come up. There is so much that can be done. To say that they don't need impact fees because they are at capacity is crazy. Here's a thought, they could lower taxes pass an impact fee. That way growth is not being subsidized.
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December 28, 2006 01:43 PM
My youngest daughter and I took the day off and by early afternoon were standing in the shadows of Ronnie Floyd's 3 giant crosses. Lord almighty....I felt like Jethro's daddy taking sister Jethrine up for a visit with the Clampetts around the cement pond.
We passed away the afternoon with a lifelong friend on Champions Boulevard and then moseyed over to Pinnacle Point shopping center and took in what the progress of the past 50 years hath wrought.
Imagine driving your car right up to a parking place in front of the store you intend to shop in! No endless sea of cars like at the old fashioned mall. All that fresh air, piped in music in the ground and next to no fluorescent lights that give female skin a green tone.
My daughter was mighty impressed with this new idea of free standing stores, side by side on either side of a wide street. Watch out malls......you're time has come! We're going back to the world I grew up in!
I have to say the Ronnie Floyd Church I passed today didn't live up to the stories I've been told about it. I predict 10 years from now the Hanke Brothers will be covering it in white siding.
The Pinnacle Point gated community was an impressive show today. Outside of having a rather cold barren soulless look about it, I'm sure life is pretty nifty at Pinnacle Point.
Except for tuna salad, I like all things old, so I won't be looking to trade in the DBI compound for anything I saw on Champions Boulevard, but by all means let everyone with more than 10 mill in the bank load up the Ryder Truck and hie thee to the guard tower for your own Wal-Money McMansion.
Womack should be pleased when I say I don't believe I spotted a single Mexican during my stay in Rogers today. The posse is working.
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December 29, 2006 12:46 AM