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Originally Posted by budman473 Actually you are not digging into my bottom line. I do not own any property n the CRE and could quite frankly give a hoot in hades about the fees. But when I saw someone out there who is so against capitialism and property rights I felt the need to chime in.
Please explain to me how CRE and Drum Point are getting gas tax money dedicated solely to them. Also, we in Southern Maryland have been paying gas taxes and by the way are going to pay even more soon that have been going towards the metro and commuter rail for years.
Oh and as far as a fee discouraging builders from developing the vacant lots, don't kid yourself. When the market is there for addidtional building those lots will be built regardless of a few hundred dollar fee. If you or others do not want those lots built out, then buy them and do as you wish. It is your right.
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I just went back to try to find the original place I first mentioned it on SOMD forums but I'm not really great at searching. I know it was while I was a candidate. I know there was a lot of discussion about private driveways....
Anyway...
Everyone pays the same price at the pump... all the taxes go to the state... then the counties receive funds from the State based on the number of miles of County Roads they maintain. Months and months ago I started talking to people at the state level about the fact that CRE has 66 miles of road that we maintain... then I started talking to the Common Ownership Infrastructure Advisory Committee in Calvert County... and the Roads Committee in CRE... the committee members think I am insane... then I talked to Ed Harvey about it who mentioned it to John Gray and they went to a meeting of the State Infrastructure Task Force for Private Communities and it turns out that Montgomery County Private Communties have been sharing the gas tax for some time......
so... starting in 2009 since CRE and Drum Point are participants in a Special Taxing District [which is a qualifier] the State will pay the County for the specified miles of paved roads in CRE and Drum Point and the County will forward those funds to CRE and Drum Point for the maintenance of their roads....... it costs the rest of the state not one red cent more.... you still pay the same money at the pump.... we just have more road maintenance money to work with....
