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Comment on Tampa swing vote says he’ll okay Rays stadium if city spends from different pot of tax money by John Bladen
['Neil Demause']
Comments for Field of Schemes
The new arrangement would eliminate the city’s nonbinding agreement to use $80 million from the Community Investment Tax.
It also takes out the originally proposed $100 million backed by the Drew Park Community Redevelopment Area’s future property tax growth.
In short, instead of using $100 million from property taxes in the Drew Park CRA district and $80 million from the CIT sales tax surcharge, the city would take $180 million out of future property tax payments on the Rays’ development surrounding the stadium.
The amount of taxes collected would be the same, and the check from Tampa to Rays owner Patrick Zalupski would be the same, but it would come from a different city pocket.
Unless there’s more to it than WUSF is reporting, that’s pretty underwhelming, but it appears it’s all it will take to flip Carlson’s vote.