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wide at the same percentage. If the project loca ted outside the district has significant benefits to <br />development in another district that is not paying that fee, or paying a lower fee, it may be difficult to <br />establish that the fees are meeting the tests of e quity and proportionality. Consequently, the mixing and <br />matching alternative to island-wide application me ans the County will probably need to give up some <br />of the flexibility of using fees outside th e district in which the fees were collected. <br /> <br />Finally, the County would probably want to show th at the impact fee money is not simply being used <br />to allow the County to take property tax money it ha d been spending in the areas that now have fees, <br />and spending it instead in areas where no fees are be ing charged. If the fees can be shown to provide <br />benefits to the fee-paying areas that they would not otherwise have seen, any equity concerns with this <br />approach could be avoided. <br /> <br /> <br />H Ó C \I N A ÐI F S September 19, 2006, Page 22 <br />AWAI I OUNTY NFRASTRUCTURE EEDS SSESSMENT MPACT EE TUDY <br /> <br />