Okay, you young whippersnappers; you’ve had your fun disparaging the elderly. God forbid that you ever settle into a house, let alone a neighborhood you love.
Property taxes aren’t based on the property owners’ age. We have an exorbitant tax bill, mostly school taxes, which we pay, without fail and without complaint, every year. Our property is way over-assessed, as is the property of our neighbors, but we’re all okay with that. And dang, if we aren’t all conservatives, too.
None of us want to live in a gated community, or even a development with a Home Owners Association. We like being able to walk to the post office, the grocery store, local restaurants, parks, etc. We have a live and let live attitude and don’t sweat the small stuff.
However, you (whoever you may be) come after our neighborhood with an development that can only be built if our area is declared blighted, or you want my property to build your project, be ready for war. Why should I sell to you just because I’m old?
It will bring in more taxes? What a laugh. In-fill projects are built as a public-private partnership with the public picking up the tab and the developer getting rich. Projects that are billed as “beneficial to families” will be tax-deferred for twenty or so years, they won’t bring in either the families or the money the planners have promised, and dang, if the taxes we elderly pay aren’t used to make up the shortfall when the bonds can’t be pay.
I’m not sure what has caused your animosity towards an entire generation of people but your rights shouldn’t trump mine.
This area is already blighted as is most of Portland.
Can’t walk to stores if they aren’t there.
Or are you saying all the development in Beaverton and Hillsboro is because of evil public-private projects that soak the public for big private profits? If so then your politicians are dumber than I thought and in Portland they are pretty stupid. Heck, they tax rain running off your roof.