Article: Impact fees promise relief for Suffolk.(Commentary)(Editorial)

A bill to give Spotsylvania and Fauquier counties permission to charge builders for road improvements their neighborhoods need passed unanimously in both a House committee and in the full chamber last week.

Unanimously. As in 99-0.

It was a different story in the Senate committee on local government. There, little old Suffolk - as it has from time immemorial - was after the same kind of tool to deal with its own burgeoning growth.

You would've thought the very future of the commonwealth depended on defeating Suffolk.

"What we fear is if this impact fee statute is expanded beyond northern Virginia and leapfrogs into the Suffolk area, ...

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