Comments on: Experts Say Mobility Fee Will Increase Transparency, Raise More Money, Could Hurt Small Businesses

By: John Paul

John Paul — Thu, 30 Nov 2017 23:43:07 +0000

In reply to James Anderson. They will tell you that too! the city and county has a 17 square mile area the core of the city that they will not upgrade (widen ) the roads and will do away with a lane or two to put in bicycle lanes Etc, I order to force infill in the central area and the Commisdioners think they will make people use the busses and bicycles Etc. the area is from Tharpe street south to south to orange Ave, west tfrom high road to capital circle east I think ? But this community is a strange place sometimes they want on one hand to have jobs for our children when they grow up and on the other hand will discourage new businesses or development...

By: John Paul

John Paul — Thu, 30 Nov 2017 23:31:04 +0000

In reply to Thomas C. Hooker. Thomas , are you from Tallahassee ? I knew a former FSU police captain by the name of Steve Hooker any relationship?

By: Thomas C. Hooker

Thomas C. Hooker — Thu, 30 Nov 2017 22:45:09 +0000

In reply to John Paul. Really?

By: John Paul

John Paul — Thu, 30 Nov 2017 19:41:23 +0000

I wonder how many of our citizens that seem to care about the corruption in our local government are willing to commit to making a donation to our candidates and campaign for people that would put themselves out there in public for elections. If regular people would make Donations and help with campaigning yes we could take our government back but not until people get involved with the campaigns and not just set back waiting for Someone else to do the heavy lifting. Until that happens, the Lobbyiest and Special interest will continue to have control because they will raise the money needed to Win the Elections. The main reason I was able to win my first election, I borrowed money from my relatives and sold some property I owned and spent that money on my campaign. ( $30,000) Dollars of my own money I spent because , even though a large number of people said they supported me but they would not donate money until the last few days before the election when we knew we Where going to Win! We Didn’t need the donation them , candidates need the donations at the start of a campaign when no-one knows who can win! So we will see if things change this next election, ii hope it changes, time will tell. John Paul

By: James Anderson

James Anderson — Thu, 30 Nov 2017 12:11:04 +0000

In reply to R B. Their goal is to slow traffic down and make you want to take the bus, walk or bicycle to work.

By: alex

alex — Thu, 30 Nov 2017 02:03:30 +0000

In reply to R B. Well said. The same is true with our County Comm. They only care about their pet projects.

By: R B

R B — Wed, 29 Nov 2017 21:14:36 +0000

City bureacrats are absolutely afraid of acquiring any right of way for road widening or turn lanes or anything that requires additional land. In fact they make 2 lane roads out of 4 lane roads in the name of “”progress”” ! (Gaines St. anyone ?) The only improvements (?) they engage in are bike trails, green ways, parks , etc., that less than 10% of the taxpayers use , so to heck with traffic needs which is stupid, dumb and irresponsible. ( and Lord we pay enough in road tax, real estate tax , sales tax, etc . to cover same 10 times over ).

By: Mary

Mary — Wed, 29 Nov 2017 17:52:16 +0000

Do these people stay awake nights thinking up ways to get more money out of the tax payers? How about they learn to use the tax money we pay better!

By: Mike

Mike — Wed, 29 Nov 2017 13:43:51 +0000

On the surface it seems sensible that developers need to pay some version of “fees” to a city for adding more homes and/or commercial structures to that city. More structures means more roads, sewer or septic facilities, electrical and phone lines all need to be built to service the additional neighborhoods or commercial construction. It makes sense that the developer should at least partially pay for that.
However, the troubling parts here are “developers” and “City of Tallahassee”. There is a long list of suspect or downright corrupt dealings between the two here, in one degree or another. With the present COT government, I have strong suspicions that this new tax proposal (or any) would be similarly exploited by our trusty city officials.

By: whit

whit — Wed, 29 Nov 2017 12:37:16 +0000

I just paid my property tax bill yesterday. Over $5500.

I understand that revenue from gas taxes is and will continue to decrease but I’m not interested in forking over another penny.