Comments on: Urban renewal to rear head at Oregon Legislature /news/2011/01/28/urban-renewal-to-rear-head-at-oregon-legislature/ Building and Construction News in Portland, Oregon and the Pacific Northwest Sun, 30 Jan 2011 16:32:49 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.6.6 By: D /news/2011/01/28/urban-renewal-to-rear-head-at-oregon-legislature/#comment-51179 Sun, 30 Jan 2011 16:32:49 +0000 /?p=66618#comment-51179 Looks like Sen. Monroe got snookered. Why didn’t any of the other state senators from Portland propose this? Maybe they realize that urban renewal on its current path will lead to restructuring police and fire pensions in 10+ years, and any politician who hopes to be around that long would get tarred and feathered then for supporting this now. He’s the weakest link in the chain – the one who doesn’t see the self-preservation angle.

“Wealth begins with schools.” Oh, that’s funny. Who came up with that? It’s a lot easier to create a tax and call that a solution than to really grow the economy around here to make the area flush with money. He probably has no idea how any of this works – they probably give him a card to read, then crank the wind-up key in the back of his head, and it talks. I wonder who the second most ineffectual moron is among the state legislature out of Portland.

]]> By: nativePDX /news/2011/01/28/urban-renewal-to-rear-head-at-oregon-legislature/#comment-51137 Sat, 29 Jan 2011 23:07:34 +0000 /?p=66618#comment-51137 Our children will be paying for this for decades!. Our schools all ready have the property tax and income taxes and federal taxes not they want urban renewal taxes!

See the Portland public school salaries at

]]> By: J /news/2011/01/28/urban-renewal-to-rear-head-at-oregon-legislature/#comment-51075 Sat, 29 Jan 2011 01:42:59 +0000 /?p=66618#comment-51075 Dear Mark Landauer,

How does using Urban Renewal Dollar (TIF) to build buildings with tax exempt status and non profits as tenants increase the tax base? (eg. OHSU, Mercy Corp)

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