Commercial Corridor funding: downtown in or out?
Summary
The board debated removing downtown from the corridor program since it's getting $5 million through the Downtown Vitality Fund. Commissioners split on equity versus downtown's tax-base importance, and punted the decision two weeks while asking for real 2025 spending numbers.
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Last discussed Mar 11, 2026.
Impact analysis
Roughly $90,000 per corridor is at stake, plus a $5 million separate downtown investment — and under $100,000 per corridor elsewhere.
Small businesses along commercial corridors citywide, and downtown businesses if the corridor funding is retained.
Whoever ends up on the losing side of the equity-versus-downtown tradeoff — corridors lose dollars if downtown stays in; downtown loses about $90,000 if removed.
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