Impact Fees

Jackie Toledo is now seeking a seat on the Hillsborough County Commission, where local officials decide on growth, infrastructure, public safety, and county policy. This makes her time in Tallahassee especially interesting, because she repeatedly supported laws that limited what counties and cities could decide for themselves.

Toledo supported state intervention in areas like impact fees, occupational licensing, utility policy, and even local police budgets; Toledo backed state intervention in matters normally handled close to home. In one case, Tallahassee could even review and overturn a local decision about a police budget.

There is a certain irony in spending years helping state government restrict local author