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Webster Groves commission debates CID, economic-development sales tax; staff to seek legal and fiscal briefings
Summary
Commission members discussed the feasibility of a citywide CID and an economic-development sales tax, received city staff cautions about geographic constraints, and asked for a legal briefing from Gilmore Bell.
Commissioners spent an extended portion of the meeting discussing potential funding mechanisms to support business-district projects, including creation of a commercial improvement district (CID) and placing an economic-development sales tax on a future ballot.
City staff cautioned that forming a single, citywide CID may be impractical for Webster Groves because of how district boundaries would need to be drawn — for example, a CID boundary often must go down the middle of streets and exclude residential areas — and staff described geographic and administrative constraints. Commissioner discussion focused on…
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