{"id":348,"date":"2015-11-20T19:26:00","date_gmt":"2015-11-20T19:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/2015\/11\/20\/trend-transportation-reinvestment-zone-merger-3-benefits-of-trz-4-benefits-of-transportation-projects\/"},"modified":"2015-11-20T19:26:00","modified_gmt":"2015-11-20T19:26:00","slug":"trend-transportation-reinvestment-zone-merger-3-benefits-of-trz-4-benefits-of-transportation-projects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/trend-transportation-reinvestment-zone-merger-3-benefits-of-trz-4-benefits-of-transportation-projects\/","title":{"rendered":"Trend: Transportation Reinvestment Zone Merger. 3 Benefits of TRZ. 4 Benefits of Transportation Projects."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Which County is proposing a Transportation Reinvestment Zone?<\/strong>\u00a0Cameron County<\/p>\n<p><strong>How is Cameron County moving forward with the Transportation Reinvestment Zone?<\/strong>\u00a0The County Commissioners are voting to approve a merger of 5 TIRZ districts<\/p>\n<p><strong>What 3 benefits do they see in the Transportation Reinvestment Zone?<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;transportation projects can be completed much more quickly&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>there will be\u00a0more funding as the RMA will be able to pledge the existing TIRZ funds\u00a0for a bond directly<\/li>\n<li>Potential to create an economic boon for the region<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>4 benefits of transportation projects:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Creates jobs<\/li>\n<li>Improves the quality of life<\/li>\n<li>Leads to economic development<\/li>\n<li>Increases the ad valorem tax base<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Refreshing our Recollection<\/strong>: Why do TRZ districts matter? \u00a0 Transportation Reinvestment Zones were raised by North Texas County Judge during an September 2015 Meeting of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.capitol.state.tx.us\/Committees\/MeetingsByCmte.aspx?Leg=84&amp;Chamber=H&amp;CmteCode=C474\">Select House Committee on Transportation Planning<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Attorney General Opinions at Play:<a href=\"https:\/\/www.texasattorneygeneral.gov\/opinions\/opinions\/50abbott\/op\/2012\/pdf\/ga0981.pdf\"> GA-0981<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0lays out a way that could lead to a constitutional challenge against a\u00a0TRZ for\u00a0violating equal and uniform taxation. Cameron County is operating under a theory that a county-wide TRZ does not give rise to a constitutional challenge.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.brownsvilleherald.com\/news\/local\/article_eb2be1f0-85c7-11e5-9c4f-ff11ce16a458.html\">Brownsville Herald |\u00a0<strong>County weighs combined TRZ zone<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Which County is proposing a Transportation Reinvestment Zone?<\/strong>\u00a0Cameron County<\/p>\n<p><strong>How is Cameron County moving forward with the Transportation Reinvestment Zone?<\/strong>\u00a0The County Commissioners are voting to approve a merger of 5 TIRZ districts<\/p>\n<p><strong>What 3 benefits do they see in the Transportation Reinvestment Zone?<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;transportation projects can be completed much more quickly&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>there will be\u00a0more funding as the RMA will be able to pledge the existing TIRZ funds\u00a0for a bond directly<\/li>\n<li>Potential to create&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,8,37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2017-issue","category-funding","category-special-districts","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=348"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}