But the owner of the disused quarry where it is staged wants to charge a land use fee for the first time in its 15 year history.

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The landowner and Eilean Eisdeal Community Trust are embroiled in a dispute after he demanded a land use fee and asked to see a copy of the trust's public liability insurance.

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For the past three decades, local governments engaged first in fee collection, then in land sales and now in borrowing from financial institutions or the capital markets.

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Those who buy them, own the home but pay a pitch fee to the site operator, who owns the land and imposes rules and regulations.

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Sounding as if he were shocked, shocked, that there were insider dealings going on, Roski filed a lawsuit in 1991 accusing the City Council of buying land and then renting it to the mayor at a low-ball fee for his farming and cattle business.

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