For your consideration ...
The compromised County Commissioners do not care because property tax will still be paid regardless of occupancy.
Here's the thing about that property tax revenue increase, it's a game.
Since Maryland has the Constant Yield development never directly results in a property tax decrease. For those who don't know the Constant Yield means that a jurisdiction (County or Municipality) can't collect more tax revenue next year than it did this year, that's the Constant Yield and the tax rate drops for next year to maintain it. In order to take advantage of increased assessments or development (and the latter usually increases cost for the local government due to increased demand for services like Police/Fire/schools (that's for residential development)/etc. the tax rate has to increase to cover those increased costs which means a property tax increase for everybody.
It's set up so that when someone complains to their elected representative, because the new rate is usually just what the old one was (ex: old tax rate was $1.00/hundred, new Constant Yield rate is $0.95/100 but the rate is kept at $1.00/hundred) the elected representative can truthfully say that the tax rate stayed the same and the reason the property taxes went up is because the house is worth more
It's just confusing enough that most people can't understand it and walk away mumbling, knowing they've just been conned but can't quite figure out how.
