{"id":567,"date":"2016-08-07T23:40:00","date_gmt":"2016-08-07T23:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/2016\/08\/07\/how-one-county-filled-a-rail-revenue-deficit-with-a-property-tax-increase-special-districts\/"},"modified":"2016-08-07T23:40:00","modified_gmt":"2016-08-07T23:40:00","slug":"how-one-county-filled-a-rail-revenue-deficit-with-a-property-tax-increase-special-districts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/how-one-county-filled-a-rail-revenue-deficit-with-a-property-tax-increase-special-districts\/","title":{"rendered":"How One County Filled a Rail Revenue Deficit with a Property Tax Increase. Special Districts."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The County:<\/strong>\u00a0Dade County Florida<\/p>\n<p><strong>The revenue deficit:<\/strong>\u00a0In 2002, the County promised that an 8% increase in sales tax rate would build 90 miles of rail. They&#8217;ve built 3 miles.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Are property taxes going to go up?<\/strong>\u00a0No, the property taxes near the proposed rail lines\u00a0will be captured by special districts.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Are P3s involved?<\/strong>\u00a0Yes. The transportation special districts will work with private interests to\u00a0\u00a0pursue private financing &amp; operation of new transit projects within the special districts<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.governing.com\/topics\/transportation-infrastructure\/tns-county-considers-raising-property-taxes-expand-rail.html?utm_term=County%20Considers%20Raising%20Property%20Taxes%20to%20Expand%20Rail&amp;utm_campaign=Can%20Counties%20Fix%20Rural%20America%27s%20Endless%20Recession&amp;utm_content=email&amp;utm_source=Act-On+Software&amp;utm_medium=email\">Governing |\u00a0County Considers Raising Property Taxes to Expand Rail<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The County:<\/strong>\u00a0Dade County Florida<\/p>\n<p><strong>The revenue deficit:<\/strong>\u00a0In 2002, the County promised that an 8% increase in sales tax rate would build 90 miles of rail. They&#8217;ve built 3 miles.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Are property taxes going to go up?<\/strong>\u00a0No, the property taxes near the proposed rail lines\u00a0will be captured by special districts.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Are P3s involved?<\/strong>\u00a0Yes. The transportation special districts will work with private interests to\u00a0\u00a0pursue private financing &amp; operation of new transit projects within the special&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,10,30,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2017-issue","category-legislative-trend","category-local-government","category-railways","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/567","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=567"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/567\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}