Their solution, instead, has been to charge vastly higher "impact fees" on new homes.

Instead, government and civic officials are to work out an approach to the use of "impact fees" to finance major public improvements.

There are two main rationales that focus on how to implement impact fees.

Second, impact fees should be used for any need in the community.

It focuses on determining who should pay for what in the case of impact fees.

In most cases impact fees are used in new development.

The cost of an impact fee can vary from state to state.

Court cases along the way have dealt with the issue of impact fees.

The deal also has provisions that would strip away the growth impact fees if the economic situation here turned and the area wanted more jobs.

He also says that impact fees are a reality that everyone will have to accept.