Sunday, April 10, 2011
WDT:No PILOTS in Pamelia
Pamelia Supervisor Larry Longway is speaking heresy to the powerful when he forbids payment in lieu of tax deals on housing in his town....Mr. Longway says he himself is building housing without subsidy and doesn't think others should get it....The Supervisor says he remembers a day when developers reached into their own...and not the public's pocket....for money to do things. Larry, those were the good old days... Watertown Daily Times Pamelia balks at tax-deal proposal
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Pfft...that worked out good for him when he chased Renzi out of town.
He is buying into the myopic opinions shared by the likes of the WDT. The jobs at Renzi brothers are not inferior to the "industrial jobs" at Timeless Frames or Car Freshener.
The idea that you cannot build services first and then business will follow is just dead wrong. It is a wrong we cannot afford to buy into. Look at Sackets. All they are is housing and service. Look at Disney in Orlando. first they built the fun and then the economy flocked there.
Here is how it should be done: Give them the same tax incentive as other business gets in a 485B.
But make them spend the money they save on upgrades over a plain vanilla development. Such as open spaces, sidewalks, stone privacy wall, extra landscaping.
Good for Larry, glad someone is doing the right thing any housing will be built upon need and not PILOTS, Of course this goes against the Donald and the JCIDA. I'm not sure if there needs to be more housing, every day I see more and more foreclosed homes in the area. Generally owned by People in uniform. DANC, NOW, JCIDA need to stay out of the housing market.
Good for the Town of Pamelia; I totally agree with Mr. Longway. We have given so much away, but taxed the living daylights, out of everyone else.
Taxpayers PILOTS are just plain bad... if a company or corporation can't make it on their own, why should the taxpayers prop them up.
Besides, I thought folks around here wanted "government out of the way of business?"
Good for Larry...
Yes, if this stops the project it is good for Larry.
Good for the Town of Pamelia;
Please explain how it is good for Pamelia to be noncompetitive for development with the rest of the county? How are they better off now that Renzi rebuilt in the city?
How would they be better off if the developer decides to target another town?
Remember that once the PILOT is over the taxes will be paid at the normal rate forever.
485B gives every developer an automatic grace period on taxes accept for housing. Please make a case why housing should be excluded instead of fantasizing about the way things ought to be.
Or go apply for your own PILOT instead of being jealous of the other developers!
Hey think about this one, CFM Foods threatened to move to Pennsylvannia if they didnt get a new building now they the JCIDA $350K wonder if we'll see it.
To the first poster, If my memory serves me correct and It does, Renzi's threatened to move to Pamelia if the JCIDA didnt build them a NEW building, Odd I thought an individual cannot buy anything at the store which is now a warehouse, like Northland Motors.
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