Re:In Cramped and Costly Bay Area, Cries to Build, Baby, Build
by sokoloff on Saturday April 16, 2016 @06:19PM
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That's why people are proposing to dramatically increase the fees on new residential building permits above: precisely so that the homeowner bears the cost of those infrastructure investments. (Don't confuse that the developer pays the permit fee in the first place from who actually pays it. Obviously, the new homeowner will be the one ultimately paying for that permit fee.) I'm not saying I agree with it (I see problems both ways); I'm just trying to explain it.
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Re:In Cramped and Costly Bay Area, Cries to Build, Baby, Build
by cderwin on Sunday April 17, 2016 @02:36AM
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yep, my comment was directly responding to the notion (in the above comment) that this fee being passed on to the homeowner was somehow unfair because the developer is the one using the local infrastructure, which is obviously incorrect on so many different levels.