http://www.tehachapinews.com/home/Blog/nrranch/367 The people of Tehachapi are being double taxed by a new road development fee.&nbsp; This &quot;development fee&quot; (tax) is a $4,777 dollar tax for each home built in the Tehachapi area.&nbsp; The road tax was passed by the Kern County Board of Supervisors and only for Tehachapi.&nbsp; Why only Tehachapi and not other towns in Kern County?&nbsp;&nbsp;This fee will be passed on to consumers from large developers and for the one time home builder this is a huge potentially project killing tax increase.&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Why did&nbsp;our board&nbsp;supervisor Maben allow this new tax with the county wide sales tax increase for roads coming&nbsp;up on the November ballot? &nbsp; If this November ballot tax increase passes&nbsp;Tehachapi tax payers will pay more for our roads than any other&nbsp;city in the county.&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Tehachapi area citizen's&nbsp;tax payments already&nbsp;go towards roads.&nbsp; Why then are we to pay additional taxes for roads if we are to build a house?&nbsp; If you already live in the Tehachapi area and building on land already owned why should you have to pay this fee to build your home? Even if you are new to the area a portion of your county taxes already go towards road&nbsp;development.&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;We need to ensure that money collected stays in Tehachapi.&nbsp; I think this new tax disguised as a development fee is wrong and potentially illegal.&nbsp;&nbsp;I would like the public to question where and how the money collected from Tehachapi development will be spent.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Please anyone who is tired of our local governments taking more money out of your pocket write or call Don Mabens office and demand a stop to this tax .&nbsp; If you are already a home owner and do not plan to build you&nbsp;should also have concern this is a tax that will affect you.&nbsp;&nbsp;We need to demand action for our money.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Supervisor Don Maben was quoted as saying &quot;the development fee will curb urban sprawl in Tehachapi&quot;&nbsp; This is totally untrue it is merely a way to take more money from the public as no one will give up on building a dream only pay more and large builders will pass costs on to you.&nbsp;&nbsp; The county coffers are the only winner in this situation. Please copy this letter and send it to friends and family. email it, print it, give it to friends,&nbsp;post it at your office,&nbsp; tell anyone you know that we are double taxed for roads and need action.&nbsp; Write or call Don Maben and demand accountability 661-868-3660 distric2@co.kern.ca.us The people of Tehachapi are being double taxed by a new road development fee.&nbsp; This &quot;development fee&quot; (tax) is a $4,777 dollar tax for each home built in the Tehachapi area.&nbsp; The road tax was passed by the Kern County Board of Supervisors and only for Tehachapi.&nbsp; Why only Tehachapi and not other towns in Kern County?&nbsp;&nbsp;This fee will be passed on to consumers from large developers and for the one time home builder this is a huge potentially project killing tax increase.&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Why did&nbsp;our board&nbsp;supervisor Maben allow this new tax with the county wide sales tax increase for roads coming&nbsp;up on the November ballot? &nbsp; If this November ballot tax increase passes&nbsp;Tehachapi tax payers will pay more for our roads than any other&nbsp;city in the county.&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Tehachapi area citizen's&nbsp;tax payments already&nbsp;go towards roads.&nbsp; Why then are we to pay additional taxes for roads if we are to build a house?&nbsp; If you already live in the Tehachapi area and building on land already owned why should you have to pay this fee to build your home? Even if you are new to the area a portion of your county taxes already go towards road&nbsp;development.&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;We need to ensure that money collected stays in Tehachapi.&nbsp; I think this new tax disguised as a development fee is wrong and potentially illegal.&nbsp;&nbsp;I would like the public to question where and how the money collected from Tehachapi development will be spent.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Please anyone who is tired of our local governments taking more money out of your pocket write or call Don Mabens office and demand a stop to this tax .&nbsp; If you are already a home owner and do not plan to build you&nbsp;should also have concern this is a tax that will affect you.&nbsp;&nbsp;We need to demand action for our money.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Supervisor Don Maben was quoted as saying &quot;the development fee will curb urban sprawl in Tehachapi&quot;&nbsp; This is totally untrue it is merely a way to take more money from the public as no one will give up on building a dream only pay more and large builders will pass costs on to you.&nbsp;&nbsp; The county coffers are the only winner in this situation. Please copy this letter and send it to friends and family. email it, print it, give it to friends,&nbsp;post it at your office,&nbsp; tell anyone you know that we are double taxed for roads and need action.&nbsp; Write or call Don Maben and demand accountability 661-868-3660 distric2@co.kern.ca.us en-us Think about this, if the half cent sales tax for roads passes then anyone in Tehachapi who bought a new home or built a home will pay taxes three different ways for roads.&nbsp; The Sales tax, $4,777 dollar development fee, and your regular tax payment.<br /> <br /> Is this fair? http://www.tehachapinews.com/home/Blog/nrranch/367/#c_7225 http://www.tehachapinews.com/home/Blog/nrranch/367/#c_7225 Think about this, if the half cent sales tax for roads passes then anyone in Tehachapi who bought a new home or built a home will pay taxes three different ways for roads.&nbsp; The Sales tax, $4,777 dollar development fee, and your regular tax payment.<br /> <br /> Is this fair? Waste of City money is the root of all this!!!!! Why do we need all this stuff? Why do we need to pay for a 2nd fire department? Why pay for new roads if they are going to dig them up every other week? Look at Curry its been dug up like 10 times in the last 2 years. Why are we paying for a fire department that has its firefighters fired for fighting the cops and a 2nd guy for drugs.  Then they promote their own kids to high raking positions they are not qualified for. WASTE WASTE WASTE === MORE TAXES DUH!! http://www.tehachapinews.com/home/Blog/nrranch/367/#c_7257 http://www.tehachapinews.com/home/Blog/nrranch/367/#c_7257 Waste of City money is the root of all this!!!!! Why do we need all this stuff? Why do we need to pay for a 2nd fire department? Why pay for new roads if they are going to dig them up every other week? Look at Curry its been dug up like 10 times in the last 2 years. Why are we paying for a fire department that has its firefighters fired for fighting the cops and a 2nd guy for drugs.  Then they promote their own kids to high raking positions they are not qualified for. WASTE WASTE WASTE === MORE TAXES DUH!! Tehachapi City Fire Department  fired two of their very young firefighters for what? Drugs and fighting the cops!  This is why they need to test like everyone else does! http://www.tehachapinews.com/home/Blog/nrranch/367/#c_7274 http://www.tehachapinews.com/home/Blog/nrranch/367/#c_7274 Tehachapi City Fire Department  fired two of their very young firefighters for what? Drugs and fighting the cops!  This is why they need to test like everyone else does! <p>Tehachapi City is also making unfair fees and taking advantage of its residents.&nbsp; I also agree that the city fire department is a waste of time and money, However this blog is not about the city fire department.&nbsp; Please keep this about unfair tax and writing our county supervisor to express disagreement.&nbsp; This blog is about the City along with county government making fees and added taxes for things that we are already taxed for.&nbsp; This type of taxation is unfair and wrong it leads to no accountability for the taxes currently being taken and opens up our pockets for waste</p> http://www.tehachapinews.com/home/Blog/nrranch/367/#c_7276 http://www.tehachapinews.com/home/Blog/nrranch/367/#c_7276 <p>Tehachapi City is also making unfair fees and taking advantage of its residents.&nbsp; I also agree that the city fire department is a waste of time and money, However this blog is not about the city fire department.&nbsp; Please keep this about unfair tax and writing our county supervisor to express disagreement.&nbsp; This blog is about the City along with county government making fees and added taxes for things that we are already taxed for.&nbsp; This type of taxation is unfair and wrong it leads to no accountability for the taxes currently being taken and opens up our pockets for waste</p>