{"id":33,"date":"2005-12-26T07:10:44","date_gmt":"2005-12-26T14:10:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=33"},"modified":"2005-12-26T07:10:44","modified_gmt":"2005-12-26T14:10:44","slug":"you-heard-it-here-first","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/33\/you-heard-it-here-first\/","title":{"rendered":"You heard it here first…"},"content":{"rendered":"

The newspaper accidentally tells the truth<\/a> about the behind-the-scenes maneuvering to ram the Downtown bond issue down voters’ throats.<\/p>\n

While it remains unclear who will emerge as winners or losers when neighborhood leaders and developers begin hashing out future building heights in the Camelback Corridor, one thing is certain: supporters of Phoenix’s upcoming bond election are breathing a sigh of relief.<\/p>\n

When Phoenix City Council members decided last week to overturn their decision to allow more high-rises in the corridor to avoid a referendum, they managed to keep the issue off the March 14 ballot, the election in which voters will decide whether the city can sell almost $880 million in bonds for citywide capital improvements.<\/p>\n

“Keeping the referendum off the same ballot is one less reason you have for people to vote no,” said Jason Rose, a Valley political consultant. “Elections are highly uncertain events to begin with, and with the Trump dynamic, it created more uncertainty, more doubt. And at the end of the day, people didn’t want to risk downtown getting trumped just like 24th Street and Camelback did.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

In other words, the City wants to limit votes on the referendum to people who stand to prosper from it, with everyone else getting bilked. Everything that was ever done for any of the Downtown cargo cults was done this way. It’s just rare for anyone to admit it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The newspaper accidentally tells the truth about the behind-the-scenes maneuvering to ram the Downtown bond issue down voters’ throats. While it remains unclear who will emerge as winners or losers when neighborhood leaders and developers begin hashing out future building heights in the Camelback Corridor, one thing is certain: supporters of Phoenix’s upcoming bond election […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-33","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-general","8":"no-featured-image"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":30,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/30\/lilliputians-win-downtown-phoenix-to-be-erected-in-downtown-tempe\/","url_meta":{"origin":33,"position":0},"title":"Lilliputians win: Downtown Phoenix to be erected in Downtown Tempe","author":"Odysseus","date":"December 22, 2005","format":false,"excerpt":"This just in:The Phoenix City Council yielded to pressure from residents Wednesday and decided to reverse its decision to allow more high-rises in the upscale Camelback Corridor. 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