tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30130444.post7258287152970523806..comments2024-02-16T09:00:32.845-06:00Comments on FromDC2Iowa: Tough TIF TalkUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30130444.post-42202560483200531332013-04-03T12:55:26.410-05:002013-04-03T12:55:26.410-05:00Advertising NoticeNotice Regarding Advertising: Th...<b>Advertising Notice</b><br><br><b>Notice Regarding Advertising:</b> This blog runs an open comments section. All comments related to blog entries have (so far) remained posted, regardless of how critical. Although I would prefer that those posting comments identify themselves, anonymous comments are also accepted.<br><br>The only limitation is that advertising posing as comments will be removed. That is why one or more of the comments posted on this blog entry, containing links to unrelated matter, have been deleted.<br>-- Nick<br><br>Nickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08467682953748756539noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30130444.post-87159757443761470892013-02-07T18:18:22.123-06:002013-02-07T18:18:22.123-06:00Here is our show with Jon Fogarty, co-chair of the...Here is our show with Jon Fogarty, co-chair of the Iowa Coalition Against The Shadow, talking about the groups' concerns over the "The Chauncey" development and how and why they hope to change it.<br /><br />http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1rwVJoGTYiUYale Cohnhttp://www.talkingwithyale.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30130444.post-80595561167959397662013-02-03T13:35:35.761-06:002013-02-03T13:35:35.761-06:00Many of the arguments in favor of TIF financing ar...Many of the arguments in favor of TIF financing are based on the false premise that development projects would not proceed in the absence of TIF, which of course is not the case, especially in Iowa City's healthy economic environment.<br />C Schmidtnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30130444.post-25555072290489612202013-02-03T13:21:02.483-06:002013-02-03T13:21:02.483-06:00Anonymous: Thank you for the comment. I'd real...Anonymous: Thank you for the comment. I'd really like to see more community discussion of TIFs, and yours is certainly a widely held view.<br /><br />Here's how I'd respond.<br /><br />Are some taxpayer TIF investments more wisely conceived, executed and monitored than others? Of course. Do some provide more public benefit than others? Sure.<br /><br />Mark Moen's thinking about how downtown Iowa City's needs in the 21st Century differ from those of 19th Century Iowa City square with much of the thinking I have been doing on this subject since years before he began building. That's not the point. The question is whether TIFs should be used.<br /><br />It would truly be a tragedy if no benefits whatsoever flowed from any TIF, anywhere, any time, ever.<br /><br />I'm not suggesting that's the case. What I am suggesting is that the downsides are such that, on balance, in more cases than not, the downsides of TIFs outweigh the benefits of TIFs.<br /><br />I've itemized 20 potential downsides.<br /><br />Just as I am not urging there are <i>no</i> benefits, are you dismissing <i>all</i> of the 20 downsides I itemize? Are you saying that <i>none</i> of them have ever been applicable to <i>any</i> TIF?<br /><br />To pick one: Do you truly believe that it really <i>is</i> fair to the TIF recipient's competitors -- who have <i>not</i> received taxpayers' money -- to have to continue to compete against someone who has?<br /><br />Are there others that you believe have never been applicable to any TIFed project?<br /><br />I could go through the other 19 with similar questions.<br /><br />-- NickNickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08467682953748756539noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30130444.post-9186162088251967552013-02-03T12:06:05.751-06:002013-02-03T12:06:05.751-06:00Your personal anti-TIF viewpoint has you thinking ...Your personal anti-TIF viewpoint has you thinking and writing with blinders on. When used judiciously, as has been the case in Iowa City, TIF can be a valuable tool with a very real return on investment -- both in new development and in hard dollars and cents.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com