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Residents urge equitable local investment and question tax abatements and developer ties during budget hearing
Summary
During public comment at the council's PDD budget hearing, callers urged equal spending across neighborhood corridors, questioned the net benefit of tax abatements, and asked the council to examine nonprofit/developer relationships; callers also pressed for more support for home businesses, home repair and accessible planning.
Multiple residents and callers used the Committee of the Whole's public-comment period to press the council for more equitable neighborhood investment and to question both tax abatements and the city's relationships with development nonprofits.
"Study after study, every study that's been done independently or with academic rigor suggests that tax abatements have a net negative impact on cities," public commenter Maurice Weeks told the council, and he offered to provide several academic studies to members. Weeks said…
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