Seattle Considers Transportation Tax District
Seattle has a long list of transportation projects on the drawing boards, but little money to bring them into reality. So local officials are considering a plan to create transportation taxing districts to help fund the projects.
"The new taxing district, which would follow city boundary lines, could generate millions of dollars in new taxing authority.
Creating the district wouldn't require public approval, but raising sales and property taxes would.
Once a transportation district is in place, the council could raise car-tab fees by up to $20 without a public vote to fund bike and pedestrian improvements and to pay for road maintenance."
Sales and property taxes could increase, as could taxi cab fares. Toll roads could also be considered.
Published on Tuesday, August 10, 2010 in
Topics
- Is There a Perfect Density?
- Six States Considered Laws to Make it Legal to Run Over Protestors This Year
- Aurora Rising
- The Most Effective Way to Reduce Employee Driving
- Corridors Are the Secret to Improving Transit in Small Cities
- When Men Control the Debate About the Future of Cities
- Five Big Ideas About the Future of Transportation and Land Use in Los Angeles
- The 'Steady Decline' of Suburban America
- Housing Construction in Seattle and Vancouver a Study in Contrasts
- Trump's Infrastructure Plan Slow to Materialize Despite New Executive Order, Flow Chart
- Why Replace Successful BRT With Rail?
- Louisville's Infamous Spaghetti Junction to Get Safety Review
- Film Highlights Conservationists' Diversity
- Successfully Engaging With Underrepresented Communities for Comprehensive Plans
- Average Commute Times Won't Change Because of the Hyperloop
- Gentrification and Controversy in the Bronx
- Trafalgar Square Shows How to Reuse Pedestals Where Statues Once Stood
- Copenhagen's Post-Industrial Adaptive Reuse
- The Trump Administration's Assault on Diversity Spreads to Housing Vouchers
- Night Mayors Come to America
