City Officials Successfully Defend City From Proposed Improvement
Proposal faulted for not aligning with policies that have failed to produce improvements for years.
CITY HALL– Municipal employees met with the City’s legal counsel at an unscheduled meeting Friday– the day City Hall is now closed for business– to formulate their legal strategy to prevent a proposed improvement that could help revitalize the downtown area.
In what the City Manager is calling a “near miss,” a taxpayer had suggested doing things differently than the way the City does things, resulting in the City taking emergency inaction.
The proposal called for a mixture of housing, jobs, public trails, regional transit, and open space that– if built– would have made significant tax contributions that could help pay for other proposed City improvements.
City narrowly avoids potential investment in approved project that people liked.
The multiple Attorneys hired by the City to defend against private investment in the improvement attended the meeting, at a combined cost of $700/hour, which will be paid for by the taxpayers who had voted overwhelmingly in favor of the improvement.
Citizens note that the City’s way “hasn’t improved anything noticeably for 30 years,” and “god forbid they get out of the way of attempted progress.”