More Developments - Pre 2003

Many of these developments were approved by the old County Commissioners prior to the cahnge of government. Some of partially complete, most are still waiting for who knows what.

At an average of merely 3 persons per Household, these 7600 ERU's could account for 22,800 people in Wasatch County. (Many may be secondary homes, which are generally an economic benefit to the county.)

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pre 2003	North Village		estimated	1000
pre 2003	Sorenson		estimated	1000
pre 2003	Beaufontaine	1600 E Lake Ck Rd.	estimated	100
Nov 2002	Crossings		(150 shown above)	538	336
2005	Strawberry Pines			316	1002
pre 2003	Cobblestone	1200 S	some remaining	127	98
pre 2003	Lake Creek Farms	Wild Mare	some remaining
pre 2003	Greener Hills
pre 2003	Victory Ranch		estimated	1000
pre 2003	Aspens at Jordanelle			1348
pre 2003	Tuhaye		estimated	600
pre 2003	Hideout Canyon		estimated	100
	Midway			???
	Heber City			???
Proposals:
Aug 2006	Red Ledges			1468	1900
Aug 2006	Spring Hollow	3200 E Lk Ck		19	26
Aug 2006	The Woods	600 S 2200 E	Cobblestone	9	12
				7625

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The Cost of Growth

The Planning Department has a cost analysis program for developments which should provide breakdown of government cost numbers per family - at least per household. A minimal rough estimate was a $1000 increase in tax expenditures for every home built.

County portion of school costs are about $4,000 per student. The county budget will also provide the overall costs of government provide services, but it's difficult to allocate the costs by a per capita basis of increase in population. More people does not necessarily mean increase in use cost, in fact sometimes it may decrease per capita. - but you already knew that.

Admittedly I have not read the Wikstrom report, but according to Lisa Parkin's letter (very Pro BigBox) in the Wave today, we have a tax leakage on $29 million per year in sales. That amounts to an expenditure of about $6000 per year for every family in the county or $500 per month. Do you spend $500 per month on "groceries and general merchandise" outside of Wasatch? If so, would you stop because WalMart comes to town? Those figures, IMO, are grossly exaggerated. What is the actual sales projection for a Wasatch big box? How are those "tax benefits" computed. Personally, I'd be surprised if my family spent $20 last YEAR and I sincerely doubt that, WalMart was here that we'd spend $200 per year for some item of convenience that I could not get elsewhere. This is the same faulty logic used in the Airport economic analysis.

It is important to note that the sales tax goes mainly to Heber - not the county, Parkin quotes $77K to school (which would be offset by increased people moving in) and $89K to Wasatch.