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Originally Posted by bigguy1231
You can mock the Economic development people all you want , but the fact is whatever they are doing is working and I'll take their word for it when they say what is needed in the future to keep this city growing. They are the ones in touch with the people with the money and they know what those people want and need.
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The people with the money are lying to us; this is lobbying by developers not fact. They say they won't touch brownfield lands but if it is remediated and sold to them at competitive rates they aren't going to be arguing aesthetics anymore. If we end the incentives to keep land underused then these parcels will be sold to people who will use them. Yes it is more expensive to remediate these lands but that's offset by the far smaller servicing costs.