…And resultant tax increase:

Winston-Salem voters will likely be asked this fall to decide whether the city should issue $107.5 million to $182.5 million in bonds to pay for what city leaders are describing as long-deferred maintenance and other improvements.

Counting a separate $17.5 million bond issue planned for upgrading the Benton Convention Center, the whole package would be worth $125 million to $200 million and require a tax increase of between 1.5 and 3.5 cents on the city’s tax rate, which currently stands at 53 cents for every $100 of taxable property.

A $200 million bond package “would boost transportation spending to $76.7 million and provide $30 million for road widening, $16.6 million for street repaving and $18.3 million for an upgrade to the old Union Station building, a former train station the city bought in 2012.”

Union Station would serve as the hub for an upgraded city transportation system which would include —you guessed it —- a proposed streetcar line.