Pinal Today

Pinal County’s impact fees, which are charges imposed on new construction, are designed to help county growth pay for itself but the fees are set to decrease by 2021.

During a Board of Supervisors meeting in April, Supervisor Pete Rios asked the rest of the board if charging to commercial and industrial construction reduced the burden on residential.

“Overall I’m pleased to see the decrease in some of these fees," Supervisor Steve Miller said during the meeting. “I’ve always felt like commercial generates revenue for us with sales tax, jobs, payroll tax."

Anthony Smith, who is the supervisor's chairman, said the development of tourism is the answer.

“I think our hope in Pinal County is that we’ll develop our tourism to the point that we’re making quite a bit of money and it becomes part of our economic development picture and there’s a growing demand for hotels," Smith told Pinal Central.