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Questionnaire for Horry County State Legislature Candidates

This is an opportunity for Horry County State Legislature candidates to take their stands. 

To make your views known, please click  contact the GIAC web master, include "GIAC" in the subject line of your email, and  indicate your answers to the questions here.  You may wish to group your answers by writing  "my answers are 'yes' to all questions except [whatever], except my answers to question numbers [whatever] are 'no'.  I am not prepared to take a stand on the remainder.")  Depending on your background knowledge, you may find articles on impact fees on this website concerning impact fees informative and useful in responding to some of the questions in 1 through 3.

Without editing, other than putting your answers in tabular form, The GIAC web master  will publish your responses and your clarifying comments, if any,  with other candidate responses in your campaign. 

When this questionnaire originated as an electronic form, you could type your comments in the following text area including the question number that you would have liked to clarify:  Please add your comments in an email, similarly.

 
Your Name
Legislature District
Verification Code (Please type any arbitrary string of letters and/or numbers so GIAC can verify your entry)
   
   
1. Do you support and will you work for an annual property tax cap until a property changes hands?
2. Do you support home rule for the counties?
3.Do you support dropping the impact fee statute and allow individual counties to decide how to fairly institute impact fee ordinances?
4. Will you work to improve communication between South Carolina state government and county governments?
5. If an impact fee statute remains in force, will you work for and vote to remove the restriction on imposing impact fees on new school construction required because of newcomers?
6.If an impact fee statute remains in force, will you work for and vote to lower the minimum capital improvement amount for which impact fees can be imposed from $100,000 to $30,000 (to cover newly required police cars)?
7. Do you support equalizing property tax credits among jurisdictions should a local option sales tax be enacted?*
8. Do you support removing sales taxes from groceries?
9. Will you work to improve state roads such as 701?
10. Will you work to help get a connector road from the south strand to 701?
11. Will you support extending the time allowed between application filing for a new development of 12 or more homes and the required planning commission action (approval, refusal or deferral with developer's agreement)  from 30 to 90 days?
12. Do you support using golf course business profits instead of the assessed value of golf course property as the basis for taxing golf course property?

* When last a local option sales tax was presented to the voters, Horry County provided an Internet software property tax credit calculator. This gave the credit for a $163,000 home in the unincorporated parts of the county as $201 while it gave $813 for the same value home in Conway.

 

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