Supreme Court Hits One Out Of The Park

[audiophile]

$23k "traffic impact" fee for a small house is way wrong.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/news/su ... r-BB1lzo5C

[km1125]

The fact that it actually had to make it to the SCOTUS should concern all of us.

and (from the article) re; "because local governments tend to exhaust their property tax revenues on ongoing expenses," ... perhaps the local governments need to work on the "ongoing expense" so this is not an issue!

[MWmetalhead]

This case is far from over.

From the article:

...The U.S. Supreme Court vacated that ruling and remanded it back to the state court to decide whether or not the $23,000 fee is constitutional under the new framework clarifying legislature-created fees are still subject to the tests.

In a separate opinion Justice Brett Kavanaugh clarified that this ruling ”does not address or prohibit the common government practice of imposing permit conditions, such as impact fees, on new developments through reasonable formulas or schedules that assess the impact of classes of development rather than the impact of specific parcels of property.”

California sure has a knack for taxing anything & everything.