The move comes after a group of property and business owners sued the county after alleging that itย collected about $12 million in impact fees for infrastructure between 2006 and 2014 but only spent about $2 million of that by a June 2014 deadline.
The fee was assessed for property owners in theย unincorporated southwestern part of the county near I-26–including homes in and around Cane Bay Plantation.
The fee on a single-family home was around $1,400.
Property owners in the area mentioned will be refunded about 50 percent of what they paid in.
To participate in the settlement, class members don’t have to do anything except for wait for their checks to arrive in the mail.
In 2008, county residents approved a 1 percent sales tax for new infrastructure in 2008. As a result, the impact fees were dropped six years later.
