{"id":4340,"date":"2008-03-29T11:43:00","date_gmt":"2008-03-29T11:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=4340"},"modified":"2017-11-12T06:22:40","modified_gmt":"2017-11-12T12:22:40","slug":"ofallon-missouri-happy-to-be-pimped","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2008\/03\/29\/ofallon-missouri-happy-to-be-pimped\/","title":{"rendered":"O&#8217;Fallon, Missouri, Happy To Be Pimped"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Geez, you lonely municipalities, so busy courting developers that you&#8217;re okay when those same developers refer to your relationship as one of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stltoday.com\/stltoday\/news\/stories.nsf\/stcharles\/story\/A7A77936E9DA9AF48625741B0006E590?OpenDocument\" target=\"_blank\">employee-employer<\/a>?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A last-minute change to a proposed tax deal has kept alive plans for a housing development on the polluted site of a former trailer park.<\/p>\n<p>Under the change, University City-based Highland Homes will get 13 years of tax abatement, not 20 as originally requested.<\/p>\n<p>The city &#8220;thought they were going to get pimped for 20 years,&#8221; said Bob Shallenberger, co-owner of Highland Homes. &#8220;They&#8217;re not.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>After the change was made, the O&#8217;Fallon City Council voted 7-1 to create a &#8220;community improvement district&#8221; to reimburse Highland Homes an estimated $2.2 million in property and sales taxes to clean up asbestos dumped at the site.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>He only talks like that because he loves you, unlike the other municipalities.<\/p>\n<p>Although I wouldn&#8217;t say the description isn&#8217;t entirely unfair; after all, through a CID, you&#8217;re going to take money from the johns, formerly called &#8220;citizens,&#8221; and give them to him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Geez, you lonely municipalities, so busy courting developers that you&#8217;re okay when those same developers refer to your relationship as one of employee-employer? A last-minute change to a proposed tax deal has kept alive plans for a housing development on the polluted site of a former trailer park. Under the change, University City-based Highland Homes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4340","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4340"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4340\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17549,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4340\/revisions\/17549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}