Sunday, October 18, 2009

Sacre Bleu!

Coming out of the City Council strategic planning meeting, I crafted a poll question on the Property Tax rate. I never would have guessed what the results would be: 47% want to raise the rate to above 91 cents, 34% want to raise the rate to remain revenue neutral (with assessments projected to go down 5%), 10% want to hold at the current 89 cent rate, while 6% want to drop the rate below 89 cents. 81% of voters backed some form of rate hike.

The new poll question is on the new draft Comprehensive Plan for Virginia Beach: have you read it? If not, do you plan to? There are three public meetings scheduled for resident questions and comments on the Comprehensive Plan:

1. Thursday, October 22 - Bayside Recreation Center

2. Monday, October 26 - Virginia Beach Convention Center

3. Thursday, October 29 - Creeds Elementary School

All meetings will run 7-9 P.M. In addition, later both the Planning Commission and City Council will hold Public Hearings on the Comprehensive Plan before it is adopted by Council.

9 comments:

Michael Ragsdale said...

Not only have I read it, but I'm having it tweaked a bit :D

Information is available here

Anonymous said...

The VBTA members voted heavily to raise taxes in your poll to give themselves more traction as the "voice of the people" who oppose taxes. That poll has no value except to VBTA members who need city council to raise the issue and make the VBTA once again a force in the media.

Just saying...

Avenging Archangel said...

Anon 9:01,

Yes, it occured to me that the result might have been sandbagged. I simply reported the result, never endorsing it.

As for the VBTA claiming to be "the voice of the people", awfully hard when they threw virtually everything that had into Moss' Mayoral campaign, yet he couldn't even get 16% of the vote. Yet those deluded fools try....

Anonymous said...

Why are meetings being held after the #1 going by Pleasure House is long done?

Avenging Archangel said...

Anon 12:54,

So you want to make an issue of the timing of the Bayside meeting...while ignoring that the third meeting is in Creeds, nowhere near a bus route? (Closest is the 33 at the Municipal Center.)

Then, if we can get Virginia Beach Base to roll a special to the Creeds meeting, I'd love to ride a hybrid down there. :)

Anonymous said...

I was only bitching about the Bayside meeting since that's near my home.

I know all about Creeds, having been to Munden Point Park as a young girl plenty of times

Anonymous said...

Want a real joke? Look at the VBTA website. It is only about 2 years out of date, yet it is heavily advertised on VNS!!

Sarah said...

VBTA website being old: that's old news

That's why they're out of touch

Avenging Archangel said...

Given that the VBTA's political agenda is based on a concept of Virginia Beach that's at least a generation out of date, why is a two year old out of date website suprising?