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Former U.S. Marine Tony Porta, who was badly injured while serving in Iraq, raises the flag at his new home in Lovettsville.
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Consulting firm Robert Charles Lesser & Co., which the county government previously hired to do a fiscal impact analysis of the Metrorail extension to Loudoun, said that residential development needs $1.20 in services for every dollar in taxes it generates, while commercial property costs 44 cents for every $1 worth of tax revenue it creates. The $1.62 and 38-cent figures came from a 2011 county study, but that work included
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That $1/$1.62 concept understandably makes it harder for developers, homebuilders and real estate agents to persuade the Board of Supervisors to approve new housing. So a group from the industry called All-In Loudoun hired a consultant to study whether that tax burden figure was accurate, and the results claim that the residential situation isn’t as bad as advertised and that the commercial side isn’t as rosy as marketed.
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study presented to county supervisors last week says that, on average, homes in Loudoun don’t cost as much in terms of government services as once believed. But one supervisor said Monday that, regardless of an average figure, the real impact of residen-
tial development depends on the type of homes built. At issue is the local refrain that a dwelling in Loudoun costs $1.62 in government services—such as public education, roads and public safety—for every dollar it generates in tax revenue. That creates a burden, this line of thinking goes, while commercial development is believed to cost only 38 cents in services for every $1 in taxes it generates.
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