Center Moriches Taxpayers Community Discussion Forum

R U N EMO wrote:

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Article wrote:

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http://74.205.125.148/Daily/skins/SouthamptonM/navigator.asp?skin=southamptonm

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 Here is the correct link to the story. The link you posted went to the pressmm site  not the article.

http://74.205.125.148/Repository/ml.asp?Ref=U1BNLzIwMDkvMDkvMjUjQXIwMDUwMA==&Mode=Gif&Locale=english-skin-custom

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Too many Deer wrote:

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TOO Many properties in Brookhaven have been taken off the tax rolls!   Save our homes....NO MORE TAXES!!!!!!!


Too many deer !

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Anonymous wrote:

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"The cost to educate a student is around $15,000 per year. A single family home is paying $7000 or more per year in school taxes. The average single family home has 2 or more school-age children. The single family home COSTS the school district $23,000 a year."

WRONG, WRONG, WRONG....spoken like either a shortsighted education administrator or a tree hugger. This is the common garbage spewed by people who want to preserve open space at any cost.

The "cost" to educate a student may average "$15,000 per year". But adding another 20 students doesn't increase costs by $300,000 per year. The building is already built. The teacher is already teaching. The bus is already making their runs. When you add another child or two across 13 grades, the impact is zero. Further, to say the average single family home has 2 or more school aged children is just idiotic. If that were the case, there would be 5,000 children attending CM from the 2500 housing units in CM. There would be 3200 children or more from the 1,600 housing units in East Moriches. You do realize not every home has 2 or more school aged children, right? You also realize that most homes are paying more than $7,000 in school taxes, and that new homes would pay even more? To say a single family home COSTS a district $23,000 means you have your head up your butt.

"A one acre piece of land undeveloped pays around $1000 per year in school taxes and INCREASES REVENUE to the school district  by $1000 or more per year."

When property goes "open space", it comes off the tax rolls. It doesn't generate any revenue. If the East Moriches Property Owners had their way, open spaces would be paying no property taxes, and the entire burden of cost would lay on the homeowners in East Moriches. The people of this town need to see what a poison this organization is becoming in their extreme views.

"Most open space purchases are zoned single family."

So what??? And what does "most" mean anyway? Again, short on specifics.

"The 10 acre property zoned A-1 with plenty of deer will add $10,000 in revenue 
and  REDUCE taxes in the district."

$10,000 isn't even true if it's preserved (it's $0), and you know what $10,000 gets you in the school district? Gas for the lawnmowers.

"The same 10 acre piece of property with 10 new single family homes
will INCREASE COSTS by $230,000 and INCREASE taxes in the district."

See above....what a bunch of crap.

"Save Open Space!"

Yeah, go save open space EMPOA, in Montana! Just get the heck outta East Moriches!

 

 

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100 new homes on 100 acres zoned single family. 
200 new homes on 200 acres zoned single family.
300 new homes on 300 acres zoned single family.

You make the call?

Are you saying 100,200,300 single family homes cost the taxpayer less than the land being preserved as open space?

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How many children will attend school? 100,200,700, more?

How many extra buses? teachers?support staff?

Does the child need special education?

East Moriches has only 8 grades. How many students will be attending Westhampton Beach HS @ $17,500 per student per year, Center Moriches HS $15000 per student per year.

I belong to the Moriches Bay Civic Association and wish more open space was purchased in Center Moriches. After our high school and middle school was built my taxes increased 38%.   


I just got back from Queens,

I love Moriches. Fresh Air, Clean Water, Less traffic,  Scenic Vistas and Open Space.    

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 Mr. Amper emphasized the fact that “residential development increases taxes because the cost of new government services for schools, police protection, etc., exceeds the tax revenue the new houses produce. The increased cost must then be absorbed by all taxpayers ... Preserving land helps control taxes because deer don’t go to school.”

MaryAnn Johnston, president of the Affiliated Brookhaven Civic Organizations, said the Budget Review Office “must have missed the history lesson. If development helps to lower taxes, then explain why the most developed areas of Long Island have some of the highest property tax rates in the nation.