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Taxpayers may be on the hook for developers credit
Bonds and letters are taxpayer protection
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The fact that the housing market crashed is news that’s a few years old by now. But as developers run out of money, years after promising Hall County officials they would finish building roads, sidewalks or retention ponds, there are emerging implications for taxpayers. Developers must build roads in their subdivisions before county officials will agree to plat them as such, then allow the developer to sell individual lots.