After a failed attempt in 2021 , Escambia County may once again consider requiring developers to pay to upgrade the infrastructure around their projects.
Escambia County Commissioner Jeff Bergosh asked the rest of the board of county commissioners to consider enacting some type of concurrency requirements in the county’s land development codes, especially around schools.
Generally, concurrency rules require each development to be evaluated for its impact on the schools and county roads, and if the project causes a school or the roads in the area to go over their designed capacity, the developer would have to pay to increase the capacity.
Bergosh made the request before in 2021 and at first a majority of commissioners were open to the idea, but as the proposal began to take s hape around creating traffic mobility fees it lost support.
On Thursday, Bergosh said the time has come for Escambia County to do something because, without concurrency, the county really has no way to mitigate the impact of large developments.