Asheville’s Downtown Mater Plan proposed creating a special, taxed business district downtown to pay for basic city services. The idea was not met warmly, as all but the posh, happening, and independently-wealthy business owners have been treading water, trying to make payroll, competing with unregulated businesses overseas, cleaning graffiti and foeces out of their customers’ path, . . . you know.
Well, in a slick business pitch, advocates of the proposed Business Improvement District, which had to change its name about five times already to dodge tomatoes, demonstrated for city higher-ups a swell little street sweeper the city could use if only it collects taxes from the BID, BIA, ADD, or whatever. In government logic, if we buy it, we’ll have to identify a revenue stream to pay for it.
Hasn’t Don Yelton been wanting to clean the city’s streets for a long time with an old-fashioned sweeper?
