Ah, since the city has exempted their political cronies from paying taxes, and as the city sought taxpayer money to install UNNCESSARY fancy light poles on Erie Blvd, the city now is forced to make even more CUTS to ESSSENTIAL services to the TAXPAYERS in their neighborhoods!
Just put yourself in the position of someone who lives in a house and pays taxes on your house in this city that is in an ALLEGED renaissance. You pay your own taxes, PLUS you pay the taxes for the downtown millionaire political cronies of the city/co/plex.
The house on the right side of you is occupied/lived in. The house on the left side of you is empty, a city tax foreclosure caused by the city/co/plex making the homeowners pay the taxes of those rich cronies.
The house on the right side of you is riddled with code and nuisance issues -- peeling paint, rotting window frames, a lawn full of two foot high grass and weeds, bushes overgrown.
Prior to the city foreclosing on the house on the left side of yours, the city would have addressed the nuisance house on the right side of you.
But now the house on the left side of you is owned by the city and needs to be maintained.
What should the city do?
Should the city ignore it's own laws and ignore the code violations and overgrown noxious weeds and brush on the house on the right side of you and take care of the house it owns on the left side of you?
or
Should the city maintain the house on the left side of you that it (the city) owns via tax foreclosure and then not bother dealing with the house on the right side of you riddled with code & nuisance violations?
I see a story in the gazette today that the city is looking at removing an employee that has tasks of taking care of the house on the right side of you and assigning that employee to the tasks dealing with the house on the left side of you.
Yes, this city that some people say is in this grand renaissance is unable to take care of houses on both sides of you. So as a resident and taxpayer who lives in the neighborhoods of the city, EITHER WAY YOU LOSE.
More EVIDENCE that there IS NO RENAISSANCE in the city, the city is getting worse by the day, and now the city has to make MORE CUTS to ESSENTIAL services to the taxpayers. But the city continues to provide full services and then some to their millionaire cronies downtown (kind of like the post about the Union Inn, posted, I think, yesterday).
So the city may "shift a nuisance officer" that handles the nuisance house on the right side of you "to maintenance" to take care of the foreclosed house on the left side of you.
The practices by the city/co/plex leaders of focusing on downtown, STEALING from long time taxpaying businesses and homeowners by giving out all those tax exemptions to the downtown millionaires and thus hiking taxes on the homeowners and taxpaying businesses, is causing people to flee the city in droves, causing massive reduction in the city's tax base, and blight is spreading like wildfire in the neighborhoods where the taxpayers actually live.
And you?
Your house has gone down in value because the city/co/plex caused a drastic increase in your taxes because they exempt downtown from paying taxes (you have to make up the difference).
Taxes go up, the homeowner on the left side of you couldn't afford the taxes so the city foreclosed on it, now you have a vacant house next door to you -- as was stated at a council meeting by a city official, and mentioned by some poster on these boards a while back (maybe rpforpres) -- your house loses more value because there is a vacant house next door to you.
Then the nuisance house on the right side of you will not be addressed--since the nuisance officer will be moved to maintenance--and the condition of that house will surely make your house drop in value even more.
But remember, "Mary Mary quite the crony" a crony of McThief will NOT reduce your assessment when you grieve.
Cuts to ESSENTIAL services to TAXPAYERS in the NEIGHBORHOODS is indicative of a city in a renaissance? Really? |
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