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Monday, March 1, 2004

Breath of fresh air, cont'd

While rounding up last week's papers for the weekly recycling, I stumbled across an Oregonian article about the City of Portland's new, harder look at property tax abatements. The City Council, in a long overdue move, is now contemplating periodic reviews of abatements over their terms (typically 10 years) to make sure that they are financially necessary and producing a public benefit.

And which city commissioner do you think is spearheading that effort? I'll give you three guesses.

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Comments (3)

Also see Leonard's push to get local businesses to pay their taxes.

Posted by The One True b!X | March 1, 2004 11:44 PM

Is revocation of an abatement a taking?

Posted by ptbd | March 3, 2004 10:59 PM

Only if you're a Republican.

Posted by Jack Bog | March 3, 2004 11:05 PM




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