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Commissioners press Port on proposed tax-increment area; ask for financial examples and unified county response
Summary
Commissioners said they had met with Port of Woodland representatives and asked to see consultant analyses from other jurisdictions; they raised concerns about frozen property-tax revenue, impacts on other districts, and whether sales-tax gains would cover public costs.
Cowlitz County commissioners discussed a Port of Woodland proposal to create a tax-increment-style development area and asked staff to bring comparative analyses and a slideshow of prior county contributions to port projects.
A commissioner said he and two colleagues had each met with Port Commissioner Bob Wiley and wanted the county consultant to present examples from Wenatchee and Vancouver so the board could see how similar areas “penciled out.” The commissioner said he was concerned that if…
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