Measure T is not the result of smart planning and management of city funds, argues Redlanders: The city keeps issuing the-sky-is-falling long-term budget predictions when it doesn’t know what’s going to happen tomorrow. One council member has claimed they’d been working on plans for a sales tax increase for years. That’s the stuff of conspiracy …
Month: October 2020
NUTS AND BOLTS OF THE INITIATIVE AND WHY WE NEED TO GET IT ON THE BALLOT
Remember Measure G? It would have allowed unlimited building heights and density on 782 acres in the heart of downtown Redlands. Had Measure G passed, more than 6000 apartment dwellers would have been shoehorned into a relatively small area bounded by Alabama to Judson and north to Colton, and south to Citrus including the mall. …
ONLY A PENNY?
From Andy Hoder (Redlands Community News): Much the same as Measure G a few months ago (which met with a resounding smack-down 2-to-1 defeat), the new Measure T carries a lot of the same tone and uses similar manipulative language. But make no mistake, T is for Tax. And therein begins the argument. Is it …