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Commissioner objects to proposed TIF-style funding for development; warns of budget pressures
Summary
A commissioner criticized a proposed approach to fund development with tax-increment-style assistance (referred to as 'TIF/TIFF'), saying the practice could shift costs to other entities and taxpayers and create unhealthy competition among developers.
An unnamed Cowlitz County commissioner expressed strong opposition to using tax-increment-style funding to subsidize private development, saying the approach risks shifting costs to other local entities and taxpayers and could create competitive distortions.
“At the heart of it, our complaint is with the way they wanna fund that is just really just don't think it's right that you take it from others,” the…
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