Comments on: CCDC, Ada Commishes Battle Over Parking

By: TJ

TJ — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 22:19:45 +0000

Amen, Gordon. I worked in downtown Boise for about 30 years – parked in a parking garage and felt like I should be carrying a gun for personal protection, but didn’t. I never go there anymore.

By: Gordon

Gordon — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 01:29:09 +0000

I’ve never really understood how they can charge us to park on our own property anyway — streets, parking lots, whatever; we buy the land, pay to put in parking, then get charged for parking there.
Hmmm ….

The only sane thing for anybody to do is stay the hell out of Boise!

By: Bob

Bob — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 14:10:46 +0000

There was not enough parking downtown 40 years ago.

Now it’s even worse and 10 times more expensive.

Boise P&Z and the CCDC have always a penchant for allowing facilities to be build with inadequate parking.

Nothing to see here, folks. Just business as usual, move along.

By: cathy

cathy — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 17:10:57 +0000

Does anyone know how much the debt is on the courthouse?

By: Cyclops

Cyclops — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 02:10:21 +0000

I believe it was May 2007 when mayoral candidate Tibbs called for an audit of CCDC. Mayoral candidate Mike Murphy also called for such an audit. Shortly thereafter, mayor Bieter responded to both those calls with one of his own. The city promptly “buried” the issue until somewhere around October when the good mayor sent out his little “minion” Mary Ann Jordan with the announcement that the audit of the CCDC would NOT be completed by the election. So the audit of the CCDC was, once again, “buried” by city hall. I am very please to report that there has been substantial progress being made on the issue. As of today, thanks to the Guardian, we no longer will call for an audit of the CCDC. We can now officially call for their freaking HEADS!!! Served on a platter of arrogance and ignorance of the citizzens desires!!!

By: Ben

Ben — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 01:05:17 +0000

I thought the new courthouse was to be self supporting….all rented out, all the apartments sold or rented and a real savings to the tax payers….or so that was how the “fancy financing” was sold to us.

The parking for City Hall is just as bad. Hard to understand why city leaders and ACHD continue to approve projects that have too little parking…..the city and ACHD are really to blame for the lack of parking they require. CCDC just knows how to take advantage of the lack of foresight.

Maybe the trolley we be just as successful? NOT

By: dog

dog — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 18:35:14 +0000

Death, taxes and now….parking.
So inconvenient, yet so inevitable.

By: Clancy

Clancy — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 18:10:29 +0000

Sounds like taxpayers will get a double whammy. Paying to park so they can pay their property tax bill. Could be a triple whammy, if they go fight a traffic ticket and must pickup the police parking tab. We could have the making of the Boston Tea Party in Boise.

By: Mike Murphy

Mike Murphy — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 15:56:13 +0000

Just like Gbad tells us it wants to build a new convention center that won’t “cost the taxpayers a dime”. What they and their ilk purposely fail to mention is that when faced with their bonds going sour they turn to their parent municipalities to bail them out. As has happened in many cities, including SLC I believe.

Financial institutions and institutional investors see right through the absolute B.S. that is “Quasi Governmental” and will flush a municipalities credit rating down the commode in half a heartbeat if they allow one of their fiefdoms like the CCDC or Gbad reneg on their obligations.

In about 950 Days we have the opportunity to bring about REAL change for a better Boise.

I propose…

* Stable city management by a professional, accredited City Administrator free of partisan politics

* Apportionment of the City Council for truer representative government

* Accreditation of the Boise Police Department and reconstitution of the Office of the Police Ombudsman’s Office into an “Office of the Citizen’s Advocate” for all of City Government. An office found in good government everywhere.

* Efficiency, transparency and control with absorption of the various components of Boise’s Shadow Government into City Government

* Inspiring, proactive infrastructure development and healthy, sustainable growth delivered by a City Hall more concerned with actual livability than with livability slogans

By: Paul

Paul — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 15:50:44 +0000

The simple answer is: If CCDC went bye-bye the city would have to seek voter approvals for all their capital spending follies. Urban Renewal and tax-increment financing allows government to circumvent bond elections for all the bells, whistles and toys bought with your property tax dollars.

Urban Renewal is quite simply taxpayer abuse and most people simply do not realize where the money comes from in the first place. Cities keep starting new urban renewal districts to fund all the non-voter approved stuff they have for projects. When was the last time you voted on a bond issue for anything besides a school?

Urban Renewal has taken your voter rights away. When people wake up to this fact things may change but for now the sheep move forward to the kill floor..