Pickerington Area Taxpayers Alliance

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The Check is in the mail

In Fix?’s 2005 campaign promises, he talked about home owner taxes. Since I assume he was running for City Council at the time was he pledging to reduce real estate taxes for the city or the entire ?“community?”? While running for Pickerington City Council how does he reduce the PLSD property taxes?

He claims his solution is to draw businesses to Pickerington. I believe the city has around 35% of it current tax base in commercial development. The growth management plan indicates that the city has around 300 acres of vacant land available for commercial development. This 300 acres versus around 5000 acres total in the city. He claims he can get us to a 50% of commercial tax base. In light of these numbers is Fix even close to what he thinks we might be able to do over the next 30 some years?

Below is some quotes from a 2001 PATA newsletter. It is interesting all the grief that these two township residents gave the City of Pickerington in not being part of the Canal Winchester/Violet Twp CEDA that when they were up to bat they failed just as badly as Mayor Hughes. Since this newsletter is no longer publishing newsletter we will never get an explanation for the 2001 and the 2006 failure of CEDA talks with our neighbors. However we could get an explanation from Fix if he knew what the explanation was or if he was willing to swallow the fact that he was brain washed a few years back by the township and much of what he printed in the PATA newsletter was force feed to him and Harding by the trustees. That continues today. Harding is longer with us so Fix is left to answer the questions since he has the most recent first hand experience and he is smarter than most of us.

?“A second option is to truly work together with the Township and cooperatively develop a CEDA for land to the east of the land set aside for this current agreement. This additional ?“area for development?” is within PLSD boundaries and shares many traits with the Canal/Violet CEDA land. Again, adding tax dollars to both the City of Pickerington and PLSD School system.?”

Bob Harding Jeffery Fix
Contact Person Newsletter Editor

There has NOT been any CEDA offered to the City by the Trustees even to our chief negotiator super human Fix. There has been no talk or exploratory committee to look into any kind of a CEDA deal. Jeff simply settled for this JEDD and was willing to sell out the taxpayers of Pickerington for the sake of building his resume. Once the citizens find out they have been had by Fix and Weltlich it would have been too late.



Pipedream.....

Where in the world are you getting a 35% commercial taxbase in the City?

Maybe in Gahanna....
What is the number?

What is the commercial tax base in the City? Is it 25% is that your number?

If the number is lower that I stated then it only further points out the problem Jeff Fix has with accomplishing his goal of 50% commercial tax base. Jeff is wanting for the city to give up it rights to annex. That does nothing for the commercial tax base in the city. JEDDs also do nothing for the city in its commercial tax base because all of the land in the JEDD stays in the township not additional properties to the city tax base.

Fix only says what sounds good with little or no fact to back up his claims. He clearly had no idea what he was doing in his campaign literature only saying what sounded good to him while taking credited for anything that he may have come close to being involved in.
Commercial Development

Let's think about what the City did with all the land they previously annexed - what % went commercial? Not much unless we are counting apartments. In my mind Marcus doesn't count - that was done to stop Columbus from continuing to annex & was in the works with the township at the time.

My understanding of the agreement is that if the land is contiguous & being used for commercial it can be annexed. If it's not contiguous we couldn't annex anyway but could share revenue after expenses with a JEDD.

Everyone talks about a 30 year agreement - my understanding is that it's a 10 year agreement & all parties have to agree to extend it - what am I missing?
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