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<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />IS <br />pays for the housing. You have misled many on the council and elsewhere, to believe <br />Big Box is necessary. I take particular aim at you because you are a personal financial <br />planner by trade, and many people, including some on the council, conclude that you are also <br />an expert in governmental finance. We now all know you are no more up to date on how tif <br />works than the rest of us. What you are saying may have been how TIF worked five or ten <br />years ago before the recent changes made by the legislature, but it is no longer how TIF <br />works. <br /> <br />At Monday's meeting I wondered out 10ud\.^Lby these developers have so strongly insisted on <br />a bigbQxJ::;Q~tQ.Q in it's plans, and why do they want to devote 30 acres, 41 % of the land, to <br />poor tax base and poor jobs Retail instead of Office or Housing. Then I hear that Costco tried <br />coming in before, where the large 10 acre or so parcel on C, currently known as the <br />Indianhead site is located. Then I remember that this project started out about two years ago <br />as a project of Roseville Property to put in a Costco. Then Rottlund was named master <br />developer (for "cosmetic reasons, in my opinion, to make it appear as a housing project). It's <br />the same group of developers as before. One has to wonder: What's really going on here? Is <br />getting a a big box Costco pushed into our community thepIim<:lIY reason for all of this <br />planning and hub-hub? <br /> <br />5\.( SandS <br /> <br />8/4/2004 <br />