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districts, County or its dependent districts, or County management but financing with municipal service benefit units and municipal service taxing units, or private entities, all of which can be grouped into three major categories: public district, public other, and private. With regard to the public services delivery, dependent and other independent special districts can be used to manage the provision of infrastructure and services, however, they are limited in the types of services they can provide, and likely it would be necessary to employ more than one district to provide all services needed by the development. Other public entities, such as cities, are also capable of providing services, however, their costs in connection with the new services and infrastructure required by the new development and, transaction costs, would be borne by all taxpayers, unduly burdening existing taxpayers. Additionally, other public entities providing services would also be inconsistent with the State's policy of "growth paying for growth". Lastly, services and improvements could be provided by private entities. However, their interests are primarily to earn short-term profits and there is no public accountability. The marginal benefits of tax- exempt financing utilizing CDDs would cause the CDD to utilize its lower transactional costs to enhance the quality of infrastructure and services. In considering transactional costs of CDDs, it shall be noted that occupants of the lands to be included within the District will receive three major classes of benefits. First, those residents in the District will receive a higher level of public services which in most instances will be sustained over longer periods of time than would otherwise be the case. Second, a CDD is a mechanism for assuring that the public services will be completed concurrently with development of lands within the development. This satisfies the revised growth management legislation, and it assures that growth pays for itself without undue burden on other consumers. Establishment of the District will ensure that these landowners pay for the provision of facilities, services and improvements to these lands. Third, a CDD is the sole form of local governance which is specifically established to provide District landowners with planning, construction, implementation and short and long-term maintenance of public infrastructure at sustained levels of service. The cost impact on the ultimate landowners in the development is not the total cost for the District to provide infrastructure services and facilities. Instead, it is the incremental costs above, if applicable, what the landowners would have paid to install infrastructure via an alternative financing mechanism. Consequently, a CDD provides property owners with the option of having higher levels of facilities and services financed through self-imposed revenue. The District is an alternative means to manage necessary development of infrastructure and services with related financing powers. District management is no more expensive, and often less expensive, than the alternatives of various public and private sources. 10 120