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Bidding out of Durham’s BID tax
Interesting N&O article on Measurement Inc.’s proposal to pull its 21 parcels of downtown land out of Durham’s Business Improvement District (BID) and thus avoid paying the tax that fund…
Business improvement district
defined geographical area as relating to legal business matters
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Gboro BID tax controversy update
For starters, the Greensboro News & Record is not happy with the way the Gboro council’s public hearing on the contract for the downtown Business Improvement District (BID) tax played…
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Gboro BID tax controversy
As required by a General Assembly law passed last year, the Greensboro City Council put out to bid management of the city’s downtown Business Improvement District and the tax money…
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More Taxes, More Rules => Surging Empowerment of Economic Development for Job Creation
History repeats. In Canton, town leaders met at a “special-called meeting” to do something about a proposed municipal service district, business improvement district, or whatever nice name it may need…
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Matheny to Wade: Please don’t take my budget away
WFDD interviews former Greensboro City Council member and new Downtown Greensboro Inc. president Zack Matheny: Matheny is concerned that a recent bill redistricting the city has been divisive. In fact,…
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Unintended Taxes, What a Surprise
Three members of the community spoke as fiscal conservatives at last night’s meeting of Asheville City Council. The main subject was the creation of Innovation Districts, which used to be…
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Supportive
Under the news radar is an item on the consent agenda for the next meeting of Asheville City Council, which would authorize a program for pressure-washing and removing debris from…
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Tell Them to Budget Like the Rest of Us
Quite full of myself, I had supposed there would be an opportunity to gloat. The City of Asheville was going to ram the SOB‘s (That’s what they’re called.) down our…
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Plan unto Others Lest They Plan unto You
There is a fight in downtown Franklin over intangibles. Some time back, a Main Street program was launched. It was supposed to provide all that vibrancy and synergy government wasn’t,…
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Hush, Widdo Baby, Sweep, Sweep, Sweep
The Business Improvement District – which was supposed to provide basic city services for a dog-head-shaped portion of downtown Asheville, through taxing powers of an unelected board – has decided…
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W-S council approves downtown BID tax
The Winston-Salem City Council unanimously approved a business improvement district (BID) tax on property owners in the core of downtown. The council did not approve a a tax rate, but…
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Barricades & Dirt Piles & . . . & . . .
Go to Hendersonville this weekend, not for the Apple Festival, but so you can enjoy Main Street while it’s open. Not to worry, barricades and dust will go up immediately…