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Westward Expansion Investigation · Special Report
Westward Expansion: Will Special Taxing District Open the Door?
A rejected development plan came back before City Council with numbers its own consultant admitted were already out of date. Under direct questioning, it revealed something that wasn't in the document at all: a new unit of government, with the power to tax residents, to pay for infrastructure the city itself won't have to fund.
Westward Expansion Investigation · Special Report
Westward Expansion / The Tax District: The Law and the Numbers
A stewardship district exists nowhere in the signed MPD agreement — only in a verbal answer at the August 4 meeting. The law, the Wildlight precedent by the same developer, and what a household in that district actually pays.
Westward Expansion Investigation · August 4, 2026
A Twist to the Origin Story
Asked who from the city made the approach, and when, the landowner's team had no answer.
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