Voters across Arizona might get to decide whether Maricopa County residents will be able to extend a half-cent sales tax there to pay for transportation projects.
Howard Fischer PHOENIX — Voters across the state might get to decide whether Maricopa County residents will be able to extend a half-cent sales tax there to pay for transportation projects.
"I don't think it serves anyone's purpose if they're not willing to come to the table and talk about a deal,'' she said."And that requires some cooling off.'' 'Plan B'That leaves Plan B, said Avondale Mayor Kenn Weise, chairman of the Maricopa Association of Governments, which Weise called the"Free Maricopa'' initiative.
Livingston, for his part, said he doubts the business community would pony up multiple millions of dollars to get the signatures for the initiative and then probably $10 million or more to convince voters statewide to let Maricopa County out from under the legislative restriction. She also warned,"If Maricopa doesn't get this, then every other region of this state is going to be competing with Maricopa for transportation dollars."
At the same time, Zuerker said, MAG decreased the percentage it was seeking for transit. The organization also agreed that any light rail extensions would be funded not by the half-cent sales tax but other revenues, he said. She and MAG want an extension of the half-cent levy for 20 years, with 40% of the proceeds going towards freeways, an identical amount to mass transit, and the balance for regional and arterial roads.
Republican Rep. Barbara Parker said construction of light rail in Mesa"not only destroyed our historic Main Street and downtown Mesa, but it destroyed lifelong businesses of families and generations of business that had been there for years and years."
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