An article “East King mulls improvements” reports:
“A NID [Neighborhood Improvement District] would improve city life for everyone who lives or works there, supporters of the project said Tuesday.
“But the new tax needed to pay for it — proposed as an additional 2.16 mills, or a 5 percent increase over current city and school tax levels — would be a hardship for the poorest residents, opponents countered.
” ‘It’s taking from the poor and giving to the rich,’ Randolph Carney, of Sherman Street, argued during a meeting of the NID steering committee Tuesday at Stevens College….
” ‘This has real potential to improve the quality of life for everyone in the district … and create a sense of place,’ urban-planning consultant Jack Howell said.
WATCHDOG: A wag of the tail for an apparently factual and well balanced.
We do note with some apprehnsion that Jack Howell, the main proponent of the mercifully moribund downtown street car proposal, is the urban planner.
Jack Howell, former director of the “Lancaster Campaign”, was also an outspoken supporter of the hotel and convention center project.