Real developers, like them or loath them, make their money developing things like housing projects, retail projects, commercial buildings, ski areas, etc.

Then there is a diverse group that become developers when their law practices, farms, retail stores, metamucil franchises, whatever., fail to pan out. They aren’t developers exactly, they are politicians that “think” they are developers. In the process they typically fail at politics and development, and in the process waste the public’s money as well, for the simple reason that they don’t know shinola about development.

Note to mayors, councilmen, commissioners, et al, take care of the roads and bridges. That is your job, and it is enough. Leave development to the developers.

EDITOR NOTE–You got it right. Even with future owners paying for infrastructure, no actual purchase of the land (Spring Valley Ranch), no highway overpass, they can’t make a profit. Now that the GUARDIAN has brought this issue to Idaho media attention, they are scrambling to report. My guess is the legacy media will probably offer up more on this “developing story.”

They have been able to do this for three long years why is this a problem mandating a consitutional change now? The simple answer is they do not want any citizen oversight on anything they want to spend money.

We as citizens need to hang onto our voting rights with all the tenacity we can muster against this assault on our constitution.

Yeah! Hmmm … just how would be do it? (Lynching’s illegal, I think.)

This is exactly the reason we do not need to grant carte blanche to governenment to circumvent voters on revenue generating facilities.

I am astounded how any why this got past taxpayers in Carlsbad, CA.