Posted on 08/14/2020 4:53:58 PM PDT by Libloather
Minneapolis officials will no longer require property owners to prepay the second half of their property taxes in order to start removing rubble from sites damaged in the May riots.
Mayor Jacob Frey announced the change Thursday after the Star Tribune reported on the controversy.
Minneapolis property owners have complained that the policy was slowing the recovery and turning piles of debris into safety hazards. The situation is different in St. Paul, which has been issuing demolition permits without requiring the prepayment of the second half of 2020 property taxes, which are due in October.
Frey said the city will begin issuing permits and waiving demolition fees for any properties damaged in the riots “irrespective of whether taxes have been paid.” The new policy went into effect Thursday.
“I recently learned about the predicament and took quick action to fix it,” Frey said in an interview. “For the sake of our businesses, we need to be removing every last possible barrier to recovery and reopening.”
Minneapolis property owners applauded the move, but they also complained about a continued lack of support from city and county officials. They hope that officials will expedite approvals going forward and help them by lowering the assessments on their heavily damaged properties.
“It is refreshing to see them doing the right thing,” said Steve Krause, owner of Minnehaha Lake Wine & Spirits, which was destroyed in the rioting. “But the taxes are outrageous. They are based on improved real estate, and obviously the real estate is no longer improved. It is devastated.”
Krause had to pay $17,116 in taxes on his property to get a demolition permit because his building is still valued at $363,400, according to county property records.
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Keep voting Demonrats...............
That’s mighty white of them...
You didn’t hear?
They were mostly peaceful.
“Minneapolis officials will no longer require property owners to prepay the second half of their property taxes in order to start removing rubble from sites damaged in the May riots.”
Prepay taxes before they can start cleanup? How could anyone even conceive of such lunacy?
They should have to pay ANY taxes.
Build it again and they will come again....
City officials are telling you to leave. Listen to them.
“Mayor Jacob Frey”
That’s a big part of your problem, right there.
If you still don’t realize that, then you would be piling stupid on top of more stupid to pour more money into your property or business.
Prepay taxes before they can start cleanup?
Who in their right mind would invest their money and rebuild in a Democrat controlled urban area? Take the insurance money and run.
Bet it wasn’t due to the Red Star Tribune’s coverage.
Bet it was thanks to Tucker Carlson’s...
Slaves obey their masters without question.
Minneapolis property owners are finding that out the hard way.
Time to get free at last and get the f&^% out of the place.
I’d be giving them the “finger” while packing up and leaving....never to be seen or heard from again. They already paid sky high taxes that were supposed to provide police and fire protection to begin with. The City failed to do that...sorry, I’m gone..screw you, you commie SOBs. Take your property tax and shove it up your commie azzes.
Krause had to pay $17,116 in taxes on his property to get a demolition permit because his building is still valued at $363,400, according to county property records.
Damn. Is this half a years tax or an entire years tax? That is crazy.
Wow, $34k property taxes on a $350k property? That’s expensive!
Demonrats never met a tax they didn’t like unless it was too low....so pay taxes for full value? after the blue city government and police leadership let rioters and looters run amuck...these people are dangerously insane...yet blue voters keep putting them back in power...smh...
Leftists are pathetic. It’s to the point where leftarded cities should pay any business that dares to open a business in their cities. It’s almost that bad.
“I recently learned about the predicament and took quick action to fix it,”
Well, little boy Frey, I’m not as impressed with you as you are.
You see, a good manager would have anticipated, and had the policies in place, before it became an issue, not as a reaction, after the media shows the world what a fool you are.
It is inconceivable that anyone could actually believe that to be good for the people involved.
I would have already packed up what I had left and be gone by now.
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