Pamlico County will pay back to a pair of subdivision developers $600,000 that it charged in fees that should have been put toward infrastructure improvements in the rural but growing county but were put into an investment account instead, ...

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A real estate developer’s victory at the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals over a North Carolina coastal county limits the scope of a local utility authority’s power to charge impact fees and clarifies the statute of limitations that applies ...

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Quality Built Homes Inc. v. Town of Carthage (Lawyers Weekly No. 15-16-0787, 13 pp.) (Wanda Bryant, J.) Appealed from Moore County Superior Court (James Webb, J.) N.C. App. Unpub. Holding: If G.S. § 160A-314 were the only statute applicable to ...

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A federal judge has ordered New Hanover County to repay more than $34,000 in impact fees that it charged a home builder to connect to a nonexistent municipal sewer and water system.

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Several builders are suing a coastal county in eastern North Carolina for charging what they say were illegal impact fees on developments that were never connected to the municipal sewer and water system.

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In another victory for developers and homebuilders, the North Carolina Supreme Court on Oct. 26 denied Cabarrus County’s request for a rehearing in a case involving impact fees.

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CHARLOTTE — To refund or not to refund? That is the beginning of a complex set of questions in Cabarrus County, questions that appear destined to be answered in court. For 14 years, the county charged builders and developers special fees — $8.45 million in fees, to be exact, according to figures provided by the county.

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