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reduce commercial and industrial impact fees, but based on the fact that those fees actually do <br />not cause much impact. <br />Further discussion ensued between Commissioner Wheeler and Mr. Wilson <br />regarding the proposed six-month reduction in impact fees, after which the following action was <br />taken: <br />MOTION WAS MADE by Commissioner Wheeler, <br />SECONDED by Commissioner O'Bryan, to eliminate for <br />a six-month period, the impact fees for Fire Rescue, Law <br />Enforcement, Corrections, Public Buildings, and Solid <br />Waste, to effect a 9.9% reduction in residential impact <br />fees, and a 35.2% reduction in non-residential impact fees; <br />to include a mandate for businesses that pull a permit to <br />commence building activities within a six-month window; <br />and to bring back for further Board evaluation, the Duncan <br />Associates Impact Fee Report. <br />Mr. Paladin felt that if residential and commercial impact fees could be separated <br />legally, that would be the route to take. He believed that commercial impact fees could be <br />eliminated, and that the financial burden would be solved by the tax revenues generated from <br />new businesses. <br />A brief discussion arose among Commissioners, staff, and Mr. Wilson regarding <br />estimated revenue losses which would occur from temporary impact fee reductions. <br />March 3, 2009 26 <br />