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Developers are supposed to pay taxes or fees to address infrastructure and school expansion in the areas they are building. This amount gets negotiated down, offset by other tax incentives or other mechanisms because the county wants some cash now. The county usually takes in far less than what the impact surveys would require. In addition, the county doesn't ear mark it for that area. The infrastructure and school construction projects that occur in areas with less development are being paid for by areas with more development. All the money being collected for the building going on in Bethesda is going to other areas. This is why there is never enough money to ever address the actual impacts of development. The county collected less money to get the developer to build and give them some money. The county then spent the money on something else.

MoCo can't take on more debt because the debt service is too high now for the operating budget. They are desperate for construction funding so they will give away more to developers, redirect the dollars more and end up even more short. This has been going on for years so the hole just keeps getting larger. [/quote]

Where did you get this language from?

This isn't "developers get very good deals from the county", in any case. This is "developers don't pay as much in impact taxes as I think they should, and the county doesn't use the impact taxes as I think they should".[/quote]

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