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Sarasota News Leader April 5, 2013 Page 24 ter: $11,112 at the full 2007 rate compared to sion of the current impact fees, noting that the $8,947 at the full 2013 rate, a decrease of ap- problem with continuing such a reduction is that no one ever wants the fees to go back up. proximately 19 percent. Patterson indicated she was not in favor of the commission applying the same percentage decrease to the 2013 rates that it had applied to those from 2007. The current impact fees "are pretty low," she said. REVENUE In a separate March 20 report on the county's impact fee collections for the 2012 fiscal year, Tom Polk, director of Planning and Development Services, and Mark Loveridge in "Personally," she added, "my goal on this has Planning Services noted the road impact fees been to keep [the impact fees] low" for anoth- totaled $3,459,382, while staff had budgeted er year, then phase in the full 2013 rates over $2,759,706. the next two or three years. The City of North Port fees showed the bigDuring the board's January discussion, she gest increase over budget — almost 161 said she could not support the two-year exten- percent. A chart compares the 2007 road impact fees with those updated for 2013. Image courtesy Sarasota County