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Sam: When it comes to
Sam: When it comes to streetcar, if you pick the right routes and they help pay for them selves; along our existing system we've seen more than $2.4 billion in private investment. The Burnside/Couch Couplet Streetcar is estimated to pay for itself in 14 years.
JK: Prove it! - Cut off the tax abatements for these developments allegedly caused by the streetcar so that we know they are really caused by the streetcar and not by the freedom from property taxes.
BTW, why is all that development of condo farms desirable anyway?
Thanks
JK