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View submission: Improving walkability cost me an election
I’m not opposed to that at all. What you said is accurate and reasonable. Unfortunately, that was never how the discussions went. Two things to provide more detail: We got the state to impose requirements on the contractors. No street could be closed longer than 2 weeks, ever. Parking was back open to all businesses within 4 months (btw, I forgot to mention we put in rear angled, back in parking haha). Also, with a couple months left to go in the project, we passed a program for businesses who had seen a demonstrable decrease in net profits due to construction to receive a rebate on taxes. The issue is that no business seems to be able to do that because it’s based on net profits…
One of our main restaurants in the center of construction actually saw an increase in business in 2024 vs 2023 because new owners managed it better.
Comment by Vast_Web5931 at 11/11/2024 at 15:16 UTC
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Reverse angled parking! Now we've drilled down to why the voters fired you. heh heh.
We're a city of 12k. We did our first two traffic calming demonstration projects this year. Thankfully it wasn't an election year for our council. Then again, I am beginning to think that if people could vote on whether they needed libraries and fire protection, half would say 'no' because they don't use those services.
Sounds like you did a lot of things right, and still...
Comment by musicismydeadbeatdad at 13/11/2024 at 02:28 UTC
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Id be curious if your rebates would be better at the operating profit level. Thank you for sharing all these details!!