Tax Increment Financing: Ever heard of it? “TIF,” as it has come to be called, may be headed soon to your community, unless citizen groups organize to block it during the next session of the Washington State Legislature.
What’s the problem? TIF threatens to drain millions from already shortchanged municipal budgets and, like many of the worst urban planning schemes we’ve seen of late, it’s being promoted under the banner of “Transit Oriented Development.” ...