This is just another way for the City of Olympia to keep tax money for things they should do and abdicate these responsibilities to downtown property owners. We will not be returning our ballots in favor of this money grab that will do little to change anything at our end of "downtown". As Doug Riddels said why all the way to Plum Street? That's just so they can get more $$ for no services. Also, if this poses we'll be requesting an exemption from paying this since the State of Washington, Vine Street Partners and the Port of Olympia all exempted themselves from this new money grab! They try and promote this as a way to improve the downtown economy for business! A better proposal that wouldn't cost the downtown property owners a dime would be to defund and eliminate the parking enforcement division of the City of Olympia and remove all the parking meters. FREE PARKING DOWNTOWN ALL DAY EVERY DAY!! This would remove a barrier to shopping/dining downtown that Lacey, Tumwater and even West Olympia business don't burden their patrons with!
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