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If Fairfax doesn't want to use TIF, then they are stupid. There's no other excuse.

I ran into the same problem in Baltimore County. (It's probably why I didn't get a permanent job there.) WRT a proposed visionary redevelopment project (actually proposed by the neighborhood initiated community planning process) near RE Lee Park/Falls Road LR Station, the only way that they could do it is with TIF, which the county hasn't really done (except maybe at Owings Mills, and that is a state funded project).

I was pretty forceful about it, in a meeting with the person who ended up becoming the director of the planning office (after the guy that would likely have hired me if possible was forced out). I cooked my goose there.

Portland used TIF/the creation of an urban renewal district to fund the Yellow Line light rail.

Frankly, I think DC should designate the whole city an URD in order to fund the creation of the separated blue line.

by Richard Layman on Jul 22, 2012 9:17 pm • link • report

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