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Buena Vista public comments split over City Market’s sales-tax sharing request; trustees enter executive session on Kroger negotiation
Summary
Public comment at the Town of Buena Vista Board of Trustees meeting on Oct. 14 was dominated by a proposed new City Market (Kroger) store and a company request for a sales-tax sharing agreement to help offset public improvements.
Public comment at the Town of Buena Vista Board of Trustees meeting on Oct. 14 was dominated by a proposed new City Market (Kroger) store and a company request for a sales-tax sharing agreement to help offset public improvements.
Residents and business leaders presented sharply different views. Supporters urged trustees to negotiate a narrowly tailored tax-sharing agreement to fund required public improvements — traffic signals, turn lanes and right-of-way access — and to recognize the new store as a major private investment in town. Opponents and some small-business advocates said a multibillion-dollar corporation should not receive public subsidies that local…
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