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Mayer indicated that it was. Seconded by Davidson. Davidson then <br />asked for Council comments and discussion. <br /> <br />Lathrop felt that the building development in single family homes <br />is rapidly winding down and there is agreement that building <br />pe~its for this year and next year are going to be substantially <br />les. s than what the City is accustomed to. The prospect on the <br />horizon for additional development of single family homes is <br />probably pretty slim. The law of supply and demand dictate that <br />they have certain economics they have to live within and I think <br />the City of Louisville has transmitted the message to the <br />development community that they are not Welcome, but also priced <br />their services to reflect that opinion. I think we are without <br />question on the upper end of the spectrum of the phase that we <br />charge. We have gone to great extent to discourage further <br />development and we just raised the fees a little higher. I don't <br />see that that is necessary. We might want to see some development <br />again and it is hard to back down from a position that we are <br />creating for ourselves. I don't believe that I could financial <br />support our raising our fees in a decreasing market. We should <br />look at user fees. Our budget deliberations and our projections <br />are rapidly telling us that we are going to have to collect future <br />moneys to support our obligations and that money is probably going <br />to have to come from existing residents and we should probably, <br />rather than try to raise additional funds from future development <br />that probably won't come here, be looking at raising fees on <br />ex,.sting residences now, so that the future shock won't be quite as <br />ba~. as it is probably going to be. Financially, I think that is <br />something we must do and we are going to have to look at, and we <br />should probably be spending our times and efforts in doing that and <br />in educating our citizens rather than trying to tap some future <br />building that probably won't be here, anyway. <br /> <br />Howard has a different problem with the proposal. He does not in <br />general like last minute proposals, especially, if they entail the <br />increase of fees or funding in any way shape or form. What I would <br />su?gest that this become a formal item on the agenda with adequate <br />information like other items that go on the agenda, rather than it <br />happening after the fact. We probably do have the time to do this <br />correctly and I don't feel vote for a fee increase at this time <br />would be fair. We certainly haven't given the building community <br />an opportunity to speak on the issue. I don't believe that I have <br />adequately seen the information on why we ought to do this. This <br />is not the time, because it has not gone through the normal <br />channels for increasing fees in my opinion. <br /> <br />Mayer wanted to make a couple of corrections. This could not be to <br />increase fees tonight. All this would do is direct the City <br />Attorney to draft the Ordinance, so that we could discuss it at <br />first reading. Second, I have to take exception to what Rob said. <br />The reason single family building activity is slowing down, is not <br />because builders don't want to build in Louisville, many people <br /> <br />10 <br /> <br /> <br />