Post Comments, share Views, read Blogs on CaPe-Coral-daily-Breeze.Com End of the line CAPE CORAL North High’s softball run comes up short in 3-0 defeat DAILY BREEZE — SPORTS WEATHER: Thunderstorms • Tonight: Partly Cloudy • Saturday: Thunderstorms — 2A cape-coral-daily-breeze.com Vol. 48, No. 113 Friday, May 15, 2009 50 cents Construction industry embraces impact fees hike “I know this increase in fees does not come at a good Supports move by city with terms time, but we could ask, ‘When is a good time?’” By GRAY ROHRER ago, making strange bedfellows The new fees will go before the — Annette Carrasquillo, former Cape Coral
[email protected] for numerous industries. city council during its meeting Construction Industry Association president The economic crisis in Cape Such was the case Thursday Monday, and could raise the cost when the Cape Coral Construction of a building permit for a 20,000- Coral and the nation has turned “I know this increase in fees Venezia in Club Square. more than just homes upside Industry Association announced square-foot retail store from that it would support an increase $2,916 to $6,980. Permits for does not come at a good time, but The CCCIA worked with city down. we could ask, ‘When is a good staffers to help create the new fee It has flipped economic para- in impact fees during one of the 2,500-square-foot single family worst times for the industry in homes could go from $522 to time?’” said Annette Carrasquillo, structure, and obtained assurances digms and reversed market truths a former CCCIA president, during the new fees will correspond with held as law just a few short years recent memory.