Costs of Development

Submitted By: kenchill1@gmail.com – Click to email about this post
If you think business and industry will solve the financial and social problems of Wheeler, you never grew up in Ohio. Ohio courted industry.

Ohio has a 9% sales tax. Ohio’s property tax is 3 times higher than Wheeler. Ohio’s transportation costs are nearly the highest in the country. Ohio has serious environmental “brown field” pollution. Ohio has air you don’t want to breath. Industry will divorce you like a worn-out spouse. Industry will play a confidence game for tax abatement with you by holding out a carrot of revenue and then hitting you with the stick of infrastructure and social costs, and then leave when it is there time to pay.

Wheeler’s vision plan is for the well being of residents. If you shop at Costco, then you know cheapest is not best. Cost and value are two different attributes. Investing in our home is for our children and their future.
I moved to Oregon in 1981 and moved to Wheeler in 1986.
Ken Hill