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Hospital roads may get tax help
Spotsylvania County Board of Supervisors wants to create two commercial tax districts to fund critical road work by under-construction hospital near Massaponax
Date published: 4/14/2009
By DAN TELVOCK Spotsylvania County supervisors are fast-tracking plans to create two commercial taxing districts to ensure that critical roads for the Spotsylvania Regional Medical Center are finished when it opens next year. Silver Cos.' officials initially agreed to build $15 million worth of roads by the 126-bed hospital near Massaponax in exchange for a rezoning in August 2007. But the developer said it is having a difficult time securing a loan and asked supervisors to help find a new way to fund the work. The work includes extending Spotsylvania Parkway and building Hospital Boulevard and a new bridge over Interstate 95. All would provide critical access points for the new hospital and commercial complexes to be built around it. "Because of the difficult credit markets, we have worked with the Silver Cos. to create new ways to ensure that infrastructure improvements are made in time for the opening of the new hospital, which provides health care and economic-development opportunities for the county and region," said Supervisor Hap Connors. "Their success is our success, so it was important for us to work together to find a workable solution." Although there is no direct impact to residential properties or county residents, critics of service districts say that businesses wrap the cost of the extra tax into the goods and service they provide. If the landowner leases the land, they oftentimes add the tax to the lease. On April 28, supervisors will hold a joint public hearing with the county Planning Commission to amend the proffers for the rezoning that paved the way for the new hospital. They will also have a public hearing on the same day to create a Lee Hill West and Lee Hill East service district. By having the joint public hearings at the same time, supervisors can expedite the process by at least a month. Businesses in the Lee Hill East district would be charged 33 cents per $100 of assessed value on top of the county real estate tax rate. The Lee Hill West district levy would be an extra 75 cents per $100 of assessed value. The county has a service district in Massaponax and Harrison Crossing, both charging an extra 35 cents per $100 of assessed value.
Read more stories about Spotsylvania Date published: 4/14/2009
Thanks "thankyouvets"
(posted by
general1
, Apr. 16, 2009 12:30 am)
By the way, thanks thankyouvets, rationality is most important when engaging in discourse! I hope simple logic and rational thought prevails in these public decisions.
Recommendation
(posted by
general1
, Apr. 16, 2009 12:23 am)
Try to not type with a hammer.
Haha - good one
(posted by
general1
, Apr. 16, 2009 12:22 am)
Still no rhetorical replies though. Well at least a simple keyboard doesn't confuse me...
Still NO comprenhension from the general
(posted by
fourreal2
, Apr. 16, 2009 12:10 am)
It shouldn't be hard to baffel a mind such as yours . HA !HA!
Ron C You nailed it!!
(posted by
fourreal2
, Apr. 16, 2009 12:00 am)
I know better than most how much the Silvers have given back to the community,but that does not give the Spotsylvania BOS the right to let him scate on the proffers.Like I said earlier. Every developer that comes into the county will proffer filet mignon and all the county will get is bologna.There must be accountabilty!
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