Got a few hours? How about days?
Metro's chief operating officer, Michael Jordan, released his Community Investment Strategy today. Basically, it's a blueprint/wishlist for how and where Metro, along with politicians across the region, should aim the next few decades of inexorable sprawl.
Among the highlights us non-wonks might care about, especially those non-wonks who get a property tax bill every fall? To help spur tens of billions in new development, voters could be asked to remove "existing statutory limitations on local revenue-raising authority."
Translated: Screw property tax caps! We need more dough!
"That could be a possibility. But there are a lot of possibilities," explained Karen Kane, a spokeswoman for Metro. "We need to look at all of them."
Coming up: Will you even have a house left to tax?