Last Friday, "about 200 men in dark suits and women in sensible shoes who represented the township, village, zoning and planning boards of many of Nassau County’s more than 70 incorporated communities" met for a conference called Creating Cool Downtowns, aimed at generating ideas on how to keep young people from moving out of the 'burbs. The Times reports: "At times, they erupted in applause when speakers uttered phrases like 'commercial-facade- improvement tax districts,' or 'benefit-assessment-basis taxation.' The notion of 'multiyear capital improvement programs' was also quite popular." [NYT]
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