"In any case, you seemed to throw our the property tax argument like nobody is paying for anything down there, and I wanted to clarify there were people paying some of the bills."

Realize that most of this is TIF financing. Sow when inflation starts hitting schools and other things like road repair that any increase in value in all of those condos goes first to paying back the bond - not schools or roads or sewers or bridges. So we mortgage away our children's futures.

I think Mr Adams sees things as what type of monthly payment it is and not what it actually costs. So, bingo, the bright new shiny projects get built because they are exciting, tehn we have no money to maintain them, then everyone else in town pays and the potholes deepen. For example SDCs from all over town were diverted to the Pearl District for a long time instead of building parks and sidewalks in the neighborhoods where they originated.

In sum, my argument is that Mr Adams lets the rest of town go to heck, while he likes to build new things.

It would be like a family in house with holes in the floor and poor working toilets, however, the father insists on a new min-van that gets used 5% of the time and a new water feature in the backyard with no cost limits.