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BOOK ? PAGE J <br />county, it was somewhat confusing on what this mobile home park <br />had in regard to escrowed funds. The franchise tried to <br />recognize all possible future conditions, and very wisely said <br />that it had to be financially feasible for the connection to take <br />place to the County system. Although the franchise set up <br />numbers that were to be regarded as impact fees, it obviously did <br />not see a possibility in the future that those fees would not <br />represent the actual costs or the needed costs to accommodate the <br />services. The customers of the Village Green utility were very <br />unhappy with the service and came to the County on many occasions <br />asking for some type of relief. In 1985 when Realcor purchased <br />Village Green West -Phase IV, now Countryside North, and wanted to <br />expand the franchise, it was somewhat involved and everyone was <br />concerned about the impact fees and the ability of the owner to <br />pass through those fees to the individual owners of the <br />residences. Staff's assignment was to come up with a method of <br />payment of the impact fees so that if it ever happened that the <br />park owners were allowed to pass through the impact charges to <br />the tenants, it would somewhat relieve the burden so that people <br />would not have to come up with the money all at one time. That <br />resulted in the idea that the impact fees would not have to be <br />paid until a specific mobile home was resold, meaning that the <br />people living there could live there for 10 years without having <br />to pay the impact fee if they did not sell their unit by then or <br />if the park owner was allowed to pass through the impact fees. <br />At the time of the resale of that unit, the owner of the mobile <br />home park had to remit to the County whatever the current impact <br />fee was at the time of the resale. It was a one-time charge that <br />would be charged only when the resale took place, and then they <br />would be totally vested as far as their impact fees were <br />concerned on that specific mobile home lot. Director Pinto <br />emphasized that the impact fees always were paid by the mobile <br />home park owner, and it wasn't even that important to us which <br />units it represented other than for us to keep track that we were <br />getting paid in a timely manner when we were supposed to get <br />paid. If they didn't pay it, the action would be against the <br />park owner. The agreements are with the park owner, and if there <br />were any liens or foreclosures to take place, it would be against <br />the real property or the park owner. The lien would be placed on <br />the entire property, and the obligation would be a cloud on the <br />mortgage on that property and would have nothing to do with the <br />individual mobile homes. <br />Director Pinto noted that while all this was going on, the <br />County was in the process of building the west county wastewater <br />33 <br />M <br />