If a Tucson voter who supported Proposition 400 in 1999, the initiative that created Rio Nuevo, left town and returned ten years later, he or she would wonder what happened.
As cliché as the phrase may be that the only certainties in life are death and taxes, what is not cliché is how we as individuals, collectively and municipally, approach the given certainty of the need for tax revenue.
TWO DAYS after State Representative Frank Antenori warned the Rio Nuevo District Board not to rock Rio Nuevo’s boat by obligating Rio Nuevo or its TIF revenue stream to any contracts or projects prior to the Legislature’s passage of the State budget—which would include an amendment pertaining to the disposition of Rio Nuevo—an article in the Arizona Daily Star demonstrated the precariousness of Rio Nuevo’s position in the State Legislature.
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