Unlike my feelings regarding new apartments being constructed in Cibolo, I am actually in favor of new subdivisions being added within our city. New housing will allow people to move into brand new houses in our great city and enjoy home ownership within one of the lowest property tax municipalities in our region. New subdivisions will increase our appraised taxable property base which currently stands at a little over $2B dollars. Having more property tax revenue from new houses in Cibolo will also decrease the need to further raise our property tax rate & our sales tax rate because there will be a larger total amount of taxable properties to receive property tax revenue from for the city of Cibolo. This added tax revenue can be used to fund road improvements, emergency services, & quality of life programs within our city.
If / when we approve new housing developments, we must hold the developers responsible for paying adequate impact fees & also request that they help improve our infrastructure. We need current & future housing developers to pay to widen & improve roads that are traveled on in order to enter their developments & we must also continue to insist that every new neighborhood has at least 2 ways to get in & out of the subdivisions.