Richard Flood Quotations

We are seeing an expanded use of impact fees.

One of the concerns the village had is who and how is that enforced.

I believe this is absolutely necessary to deal with growth.

Fifty years ago this was not a big deal. Today, absorbing $18,500 is a problem or $10,000 or whatever the calculation is in your community, somebody has to pay for it.

Now, large subdivisions are being built. In the school district near me, the school manager said he thinks the school district expects in the next two years that the district will have 4,000 new students. That didn't happen 50 years ago, you didn't even get 200 new students then.

If you look at the legislative history of this, the thousands of pages, there is no suggestion in any of this that it was the intent of the Legislature to tell local governments what they could talk about in their meetings.